METHOD FOR PERFORMING A VOLTAGE STABILITY SECURITY ASSESSMENT FOR A POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM

摘要

A method for performing a voltage stability security assessment for a region of an electric power transmission system having a plurality of buses and a plurality of sources of reactive reserves coupled thereto. The plurality of buses are grouped into a plurality of voltage control areas such that each of the buses within each voltage control area has a substantially similar reactive margin and voltage at the minimum of the corresponding reactive power versus voltage relationship. A corresponding reactive reserve basin is determined for each of at least one of the voltage control areas. Each reactive reserve basin comprises at least one of the sources of reactive reserves selected in dependence upon a measure of the reactive reserves depleted at a predetermined operating point of the electric power transmission system. A single contingency analysis is performed by computing a corresponding quantity for each reactive reserve basin in response to each of a plurality of single contingencies. The corresponding quantity is representative of a reduction in the reactive reserves within the reactive reserve basin. A multiple contingency analysis is performed for each reactive reserve basin using the single contingencies whose corresponding quantity exceeds a predetermined threshold.