A Power Winner

IEEE Spectrum Online says that: "Among our roundup of Winners and Losers this month, we've selected the SuperVAR from American Superconductor Corp.," in a post entiled A POWER WINNER to which I made the following comment:

As the central station concept loses steam, I wonder if small isn't more beautiful in vars than in watts. Power engineers learned a long time ago that vars don't travel well. Begging the question, Can this var source be made as efficient in small quantities?