Multi-Stage Holomorphic Embedding Method for Calculating the Power-Voltage Curve
For power system engineers, this method improves the accuracy of P-V curve calculations under heavy loading conditions, but the improvement is incremental over existing holomorphic embedding approaches.
The authors propose a multi-stage holomorphic embedding method to address precision issues (round-off errors) in calculating power-voltage curves for heavily loaded power systems, achieving accuracy comparable to the traditional continuation power flow method on the New England 39-bus system.
The recently proposed non-iterative load flow method, called the holomorphic embedding method, may encounter the precision issue, i.e. nontrivial round-off errors caused by the limit of digits used in computation when calculating the power-voltage (P-V) curve for a heavily loaded power system. This letter proposes a multi-stage scheme to solve such a precision issue and calculate an accurate P-V curve. The scheme is verified on the New Eng-land 39-bus power system and benchmarked with the result from the traditional continuation power flow method.