An Effective Load-Flow Approach Based on Gauss-Newton Formulation

Abstract

Despite that most of power systems can be categorized as well-conditioned, ill-conditioned cases are becoming more frequent. Consequently, developing new robust LF techniques is necessary to efficiently solve these cases. In this paper, an effective load-flow (LF) approach based on Gauss-Newton’s formulation is proposed. Moreover, efficient strategies for exploring the unsolvable region and calculating the solution space boundary are developed. The proposed LF approach is comprehensively validated using a wide variety of ill-conditioned systems in loadbase conditions, near of the maximum loadability points and considering generator’ reactive limits. The studied systems range from 1888-bus to 70000-bus. The results prove the efficiency and superiority of proposed approach over other well-known LF methods.