A Simple Approach to Incorporating STATCOM into a Newton-Based Power Flow and Optimal Power Flow Algorithms

Incorporating STATCOM into existing power flow (PF) or optimal (OPF) algorithm usually requires the development of complex program codes to represent associated derivatives introduced by models. This procedure is time consuming as it may require various corrections errors before having a suitable that effectively solves problem. To avoid this stress, an efficient way incorporating STATCOM’s models Newton-based PF and OPF presented in paper. These introduce magnitude angle source converter’s voltage state variable problem formulations. work simply treats PV-bus with zero real algorithms. The proposed procedures were applied 5-bus test system results obtained validated similar works available open literature. After satisfactory performance, was further 30-bus 57-bus IEEE systems. show effectiveness profile improvement. For example, magnitudes two buses improved from 0.9881 pu 0.9702 1.027 1.041 pu, respectively. Also, three 1.063 0.90 0.9683 1.039 0.9796 1.0144