1. Introduction -- 2. Capacitor fundamentals -- 3. Power factor concepts -- 4. Industry standards -- 5. Capacitor specifications -- 6. Testing of capacitors -- 7. Location of shunt capacitors -- 8. Power factor improvement -- 9. System benefits -- 10. Series capacitors -- 11. Surge capacitors -- 12. Capacitors for motor applications -- 13. Capacitors for miscellaneous applications -- 14. Static VAR compensators -- 15. Protection of shunt capacitors -- 16. Overcurrent protection -- 17. Circuit breakers -- 18. Surge protection -- 19. Maintenance and troubleshooting -- 20. Harmonic filtering -- 21. Capacitor transformer transients -- 22. Capacitor switching -- 23. Induced voltages in control cables -- 24. Economic analysis.