Power system voltage stability analysis using ANN and Continuation Power Flow Methods

This project presents an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based method, involving the usage of Continuation Power Flow Methods, for on-line voltage stability assessment of power systems. A continuation power flow type algorithm is implemented using the MATLAB toolbox. This implementation generates the nose curves, used for voltage stability analysis for the IEEE 30 bus test system which, in turn, are used as target outputs for training the ANNs, by finding the distance to voltage collapse from the current system operating point. The trained ANN is supposed to provide, as output, the Voltage Collapse Proximity Indicators (VCPI) for all the vulnerable load buses of the system, which are a measure of the voltage stability margin for such buses.