Measurement-based real-time voltage stability monitoring for load areas

This paper proposes a measurement-based voltage stability monitoring method for a load area fed by N tie lines. Compared to a traditional Thevenin equivalent based method, the new method adopts an N+1 buses equivalent system so as to model and monitor individual tie lines. For each tie line, the method solves the power transfer limit against voltage instability analytically as a function of all parameters of that equivalent, which are online identified from real-time synchronized measurements on boundary buses of the load area. Thus, this new method can directly calculate the real-time power transfer limit on each tie line. The method is first compared with a Thevenin equivalent based method using a four-bus test system and then demonstrated by case studies on the NPCC (Northeast Power Coordinating Council) 48-machine, 140-bus power system.