Re: Calculate shunt capacitance

[Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez]

naime ahmadi wrote: Hello, I want to calculate shunt capacitance (c) in the attached figure. In the branch data of MATPOWER we have b. Is it correct to use this formulation to calculate c c=b/(2*pi*f) Kind regards, Naime Hi; You need to consider that B is in p.u. , so the physical capacitance computation must take that into account: C (Farads) =  (Pbase/Vbase^2) * Bpu / (2*pi*f) Carlos.