Economical Benefits of Energy Recovery from the Undesirable Components of Electric Signals

This paper introduces a practical approach to analyze and quantify the benefits of using the waste-to-energy concept to improve power quality and energy efficiency in electric power systems. Also, we introduce the so-called Passive Filtering Energy Recovery, which aims to perform the energy recovery in undesirable components present in electric signals. Finally, numerical results show that this approach can improve power quality and energy efficiency in the Brazilian scenario.