Development and Comparison of Efficient Newton-Like Methods for Voltage Stability Assessment

Abstract

The voltage stability analysis can be carried out using different continuation techniques. The continuation power flow that evaluates all power-flow solutions at different loading levels, is typically considered the most standard one. This approach is mainly based on two stages called predictor and corrector. The standard Newton–Raphson method is usually used at the corrector stage. In this paper, several corrector techniques based on efficient Newton-like methods are proposed in order to speed up the solution of continuation power flow. Consequently, two high order Newton-like methods as well as a fast corrector technique based on the Dishonest NR method have been proposed. A comprehensive study is addressed in order to check the suitability of the proposed corrector techniques compared with the standard Newton–Raphson (NR). Several small, medium, large and very large-scale test systems are used to achieve the validation. The obtained results prove the effectiveness and superiority of proposed techniques compared with the standard NR which conventionally used in corrector stage of the continuation power flow analysis in term of computational time.