A Review of State-of-the-Art Techniques for Power Flow Analysis

Abstract

This paper presents a review of the State-of-the-Art Techniques for Power Flow Analysis (PFA) that are newly proposed. However, some of the existing classical methods for the Power Flow Analysis such as Newton-Raphson method, Gauss-Siedel method, and Fast Decoupled Power Flow Technique were also discussed so as to give a background and a wider view of the improvements recorded so far. From the findings, the State-of-the-Art Techniques such as Particle Swamp Optimization Algorithm for optimal Power Flow Incorporating Wind Farms, Hybrid Firefly and Particle Swamp Optimization Algorithm, Mann Iteration Process Technique for III-Conditioned System, and A New Approach Newton-Raphson Load Flow Analysis in Power System Networks with STATCOM have shown superiority over and above the existing classical methods in terms of accuracy, speed of convergence and overall efficiency. Particularly, there are two newly proposed methods for dc grids: Direct Matrix–Current application (DM-CA) and Direct Matrix-Impedance Approximation (DM-IA) methods that stand out with respect to accuracy, convergence and computational effort which means they can be used for planning, optimization and analysis purposes of practical dc grids.