Assessment of the generator remote voltage control through static security regions

This paper describes the use of a static security tool, based on security regions, to evaluate strategies of voltage control in power systems. The remote voltage control technique involving generators and/or synchronous compensators is used as strategy to exploit the system voltage control resources. The proposed tool has been tested using both a 9-bus tutorial system and the 39-bus New England system. The results presented validate and clearly indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method.