Power System Voltage and Reactive Power Control by means of Multi-agent Approach

Abstract

In order to maintain system voltage within the optimal range and prevent voltage instability phenomena before they occur, a variety of phase modifying equipments are installed in optimal locations throughout the power system network and a variety of methods of voltage and reactive control are employed. The proposed system divided the traditional method to control voltage and reactive power into two sub problems: “voltage control” to adjust the secondary bus voltage of substations, and “reactive power control” to adjust the primary bus voltage. In this system, two types of agents are installed in substations in order to cooperate “voltage control” and “reactive power control”. In order to verify the performance of the proposed method, it has been applied to the model network system. The results confirm that our proposed method is able to control violent fluctuations in load.