This paper presents a new approach for shunt Capacitor position and size for radial distribution network based on genetic approach. Distribution networks experience distinct changes from low load level to high load level every day. In certain industrial areas, it has been observed that under certain critical loading conditions, the distribution system experience voltage collapse. Due to this ph...

The frequent occurrence of voltage instability in a modern power system is alarming and thus, has been of great concern to power system utilities. In this paper, a new performance index based on the power flow solutions for voltage stability assessment of a power system is presented. First, the voltage deviation with respect to reactive power load variation at each load bus is found. Thereafter...

This study examines a new approach to selecting the locations of unified power flow controllers (UPFCs) in power system networks based on a dynamic analysis of voltage stability. Power system voltage stability indices (VSIs) including the line stability index (LQP), the voltage collapse proximity indicator (VCPI), and the line stability index (Lmn) are employed to identify the most suitable loc...

Received Jan 9, 2018 Revised Mar 2, 2018 Accepted Mar 18, 2018 The objective of this paper is to predict the secure or the insecure state of the power system network using a hybrid technique which is a combination of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and voltage stability indexes. Voltage collapse or an uncontrollable drop in voltage occurs in a system when there is a change in the condition of t...

power system blackouts have become a serious problem for electric utilities especially in recent years. different forms of system instability have emerged in recent blackouts, such as voltage instability and frequency instability. to counteract each form of system instability, special algorithms have been designed in the protection system, e.g. under frequency load shedding (ufls) and under vol...

Voltage stability is one of the most important factors in maintaining reliable operation of power systems. When a disturbance occurs in the power system, it usually causes instabilities and sometimes leads to voltage collapse (VC). To avoid such problems, a novel approach called Vector Analysis (VA) is proposed that exploits a new instability detection index to provide wide area voltage stabili...

The voltage instability of power system often occurs when the active power on one or more weak branches exceeds its transfer capability. This paper presents a preventive control model for voltage stability using the active power transfer capabilities of weak branches as static voltage stability margin constraints. A local line-based voltage stability index is used to determine the critical cont...

voltage stability issues are growing challenges in many modern power systems. this paper proposes optimizing the size and location of static var compensator (svc) devices using a fuzzy weighted seeker optimization algorithm (fwsoa), as an effective solution to overcome such issues. although the primary purpose of svc is bus voltage regulation, it can also be useful for voltage stability enhance...

Reports of various committees set up to review the 2003 North American major power outages pointed out that a major exacerbating factor has been lack of situational awareness by power system operators. To improve reactive power compensation and contribute to the mitigation of power outages associated with the present near-limit operated commercialized grid, a bus voltage stability (BVS) index b...