A Novel Method for Accelerating the Analysis of Nonlinear Behaviour of Power Grids using Normal Form Technique

Today's power systems are strongly nonlinear and are becoming more complex with the large penetration of power-electronics interfaced generators. Conventional Linear Modal Analysis does not adequately study such a system with complex nonlinear behavior. Inclusion of higher-order terms in small-signal (modal) analysis associated with the Normal Form theory proposes a nonlinear modal analysis as an efficient way to improve the analysis. However, heavy computations involved make Normal Form method tedious, and impracticable for large power system application. In this paper, we present an efficient and speedy approach for obtaining the required nonlinear coefficients of the nonlinear equations modelling of a power system, without actually going through all the usual high order differentiation involved in Taylor series expansion. The method uses eigenvectors to excite the system modes independently which lead to formulation of linear equations whose solution gives the needed coefficients. The proposed method is demonstrated on the conventional IEEE 9-bus system and 68-bus New England/New York system.