MAKITEL DOOEL manufactures specialized high-quality shunt reactors designed for inductive compensation in medium-voltage grids. Long underground and subsea cable lines possess high natural capacitance. Under light load or no-load conditions, this capacitance generates an immense buildup of capacitive reactive power, triggering the Ferranti effect—a dangerous rise in voltage at the receiving end of the line. 

To neutralize this energy, MAKITEL custom-engineers oil-immersed shunt reactors that connect in parallel (shunt) to the transmission system. Operating essentially as heavy-duty inductive sponges, these reactors absorb the problematic capacitive reactive power to stabilize line voltages within safe operating limits.

Built inside their modern facility in Macedonia, MAKITEL shunt reactors utilize gapped iron cores to handle high magnetic flux without saturation. They deliver exceptional thermal performance, low vibration levels, and heavy structural reinforcement to protect critical grid infrastructure from destructive voltage peaks