The importance of preventing the voltage collapse is gaining importance due to increase in dependency on the use of electricity. This has compelled the utilities to maintain high system reliability. The evaluation of a power systems ability to withstand dangerous contingencies and to survive to a normal or acceptable operating point is a prerequisite for security analysis. Line outage often cau...

The increase in Distributed Generation (DG) penetration in distribution network can be used as a means of addressing the increasing load demand without the upgrade of transmission lines. However, this increasing demand despite the supplementary supply from DG sources can cause the system to operate at its maximum capacity or at point of voltage collapse. It therefore, becomes necessary to deter...

We consider a model of a distribution feeder connecting multiple loads to the sub-station. Voltage is controlled directly at the head of the line (sub-station), however, voltage anywhere further down the line is subject to fluctuations, caused by irregularities of real and reactive distributed power consumption/generation. The lack of a direct control of voltage along the line may result in the...

The importance of preventing the voltage collapse is gaining importance due to increase in dependency on the use of electricity. This has compelled the utilities to maintain high system reliability. The evaluation of a power systems ability to withstand dangerous contingencies and to survive to a normal or acceptable operating point is a prerequisite for security analysis. Fast and accurate sec...

This report describes power system component and system modelling for voltage stability studies, as well as a protection system against voltage collapse installed in Sweden. The importance of detailed and accurate models for dynamic loads, tap changer control, generator current limiters and distribution systems is demonstrated in the paper. The necessity to go into details and to do experiments...

The detection of voltage collapse is essential to avoid possible voltage collapse for the preventive control actions and voltage security assessment. One effective way to know the locations where voltage collapses could be appear is to identify weakest buses in the systems. The weakest bus is the first point where voltage collapses appear in a severe contingency. This paper proposes a technique...

Unalleviated voltage instability frequently results in collapse; which is a cause of concern power system networks across the globe but particularly developing countries. This study proposed an online collapse prediction model through application machine learning technique and stability index called new line (NLSI_1). The approach based on multilayer feed-forward neural network whose inputs are...