Fast contingency screening and evaluation for voltage security analysis

The authors describe a fast security-analysis technique for voltage security assessment in an energy-management system. The proposed method identifies the location of buses with potential voltage problems and thereby defines a voltage-sensitive subnetwork for contingency screening. This allows the evaluation of a large number of contingencies. The efficiency of this method is derived from the use of a voltage subnetwork to drastically reduce the number of bus voltages to be solved; and subsequently from the use of compensation techniques and sparse-vector methods (including adaptive reduction) for screening and final solution of contingencies. Results demonstrating the effectiveness of the method on a small and a large power system are presented