Dynamic Load Flow Technique for Power System Simulators

Abstract

This paper presents a dynamic load flow technique for power system simulators. The approach presented can be applied to a system when there is a net accelerating or decelerating power in the system. It possesses all the attractive features and basic structure of the normal fast decoupled method, and it does not depend on the selected reference bus. The modifications to the standard fast decoupled power flow algorithm are derived, and power system simulator implementation considerations are discussed. The algorithm has been tested on standard IEEE test cases and on a metropolitan utility 559 bus model. A numerical example of the above algorithm on the 559 test case is presented which demonstrates convergence characteristics and computation requirements of the proposed algorithm. These results are compared with those of normal fast decoupled load flow.