Strategic Capacitor Placement for Reducing Voltage Collapse Probability in Power Systems

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Bus voltage stability is very important factor in power system reliability.Voltage instability and protection system malfunction can lead to voltage collapse. If power systems cannot meet reactive power demands on a bus, voltage starts to drop. Thus, reactive power compensation can reduce the risk of voltage collapse. In this paper, two new indices are introduced for weak bus identification; also, a method is proposed for reducing the collapse probability of placing capacitors. To this end, the networks of 30 IEEE standard buses were studied; buses were ranked according to the weakest bus identification indices. Network probabilities of being in normal, under-voltage, and risk-and-collapse zones were calculated. By the strategic placement of capacitors with PSO (Particle swarm optimization), the algorithm probability of networks in the collapse zone reduced significantly; also, the performance of proposed indices over other methods was illustrated.

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