A Coordinating Procedure for Tracing Static Bifurcation Points of Voltage Instability

Based on static bifurcation theory, a systematic procedure for tracing the bifurcation points of power system voltage instability was presented. Two main kinds of bifurcations, a common saddle node bifurcation (SNB) and a kind of bifurcation—limit induced bifurcation (LIB), which can cause the voltage collapse, were studied simultaneity and all types of device limits were considered. Firstly, make sure the mathematical model of the system. Secondly, starting from the basic running point of power systems, a predictor scheme was presented to find all the limit points (LP) and identify the LIB points; an adaptive step size control method considering the curvature of the manifold was introduced for tracing the equilibrium manifold and the detection of the SNB points without the existing of LPs. The two schemes were combined to lead a more effective method for SNB, LP, and LIB detection.