Zeitschrift für elektrische und elektronische Systeme

Enhancement of Voltage Stability by using FACTS under Normal & Post-Fault Steady State Conditions

Abstract

K. Venkata Ramana Reddy, M. Padma Lalitha and P. Harsha Vardhan Reddy

In this paper an IEEE standard test system has been considered and Load flows were computed by using Newton- Raphson method with the help of MATLAB and a weak bus is identified. The bus that is with a low voltage magnitude is incorporated with FACTS devices namely TCSC and SVC in order to improve the voltage under normal conditions. Then the reactive power at a particular bus is increased until it reaches to the instability point and the voltage stability condition is evaluated by using an L-index method. The values which approach unity imply that it reaches to instability, and corresponding bus can be treated as weak bus i.e. with a highest value of L-index, and is incorporated with FACTS devices to enhance the voltage stability under post-fault steady state condition also.