Power system voltage stability and security assessment

Abstract

The purpose of this investigation is to review the recent research progress in voltage stability and security assessment of power systems. This paper presents the fundamental concepts of voltage stability, gives a short recall of the classical voltage theory and different criteria currently available for predicting voltage collapse problems in power systems, which have been associated with multiple power flow solutions, bifurcation, dynamics of tap changers, stochastic loads, singular values, etc. The various methods for studying voltage collapse are compared. The application of expert system techniques to assist in the decision-making process of the reactive power/voltage control problem of power systems and future research directions towards voltage stability and security assessment will also be proposed in this paper.