A DYNAMIC LOAD MODEL FOR ANALYSIS OF POWER-SYSTEM VOLTAGE

It has become important in recent years that power systems be protected from voltage instability caused, in part, by heavy loads and the concentration of air conditioning loads during certain hours. Many studies have explored the problems and possible countermeasures. However, the load representations used in these studies are based on power values, i.e., P and Q; therefore, these analytic models are insufficient to express load responses and, thus, investigation is somewhat limited. This paper introduces a load model expressing load admittance responses by a first-order delay differential equation and uses this model in tandem with power network solutions to analyze power system voltage stability. This load model is shown to work reliably and effectively. Using this model, it is possible to investigate more precisely and widely than before the power system voltage stability phenomenon of arbitrary characteristic loads in lower voltage ranges and on propagations of instability through the networks.