Locating Power Flow Solution Space Boundaries: A Numerical Polynomial Homotopy Approach
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چکیده
The solution space of any set of power flow equations may contain different number of real-valued solutions. The boundaries that separate these regions are referred to as power flow solution space boundaries. Knowledge of these boundaries is important as they provide a measure for voltage stability. Traditionally, continuation based methods have been employed to compute these boundaries on the basis of initial guesses for the solution. However, with rapid growth of renewable energy sources these boundaries will be increasingly affected by variable parameters such as penetration levels, locations of the renewable sources, and voltage set-points, making it difficult to generate an initial guess that can guarantee all feasible solutions for the power flow problem. In this paper we solve this problem by applying a numerical polynomial homotopy based continuation method. The proposed method guarantees to find all solution boundaries within a given parameter space up to a chosen level of discretization, independent of any initial guess. Power system operators can use this computational tool conveniently to plan the penetration levels of renewable sources at different buses. We illustrate the proposed method through simulations on 3-bus and 10-bus power system examples with renewable generation. Index Terms Power flow solution boundary, renewable energy sources, numerical homotopy, voltage stability
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1704.04792 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017