Voltage magnitude contingency screening by constrained optimization method.

Generation and transmission unit outages cause MW line overloading and bus voltage magnitude violation problems in the remaining part of the system. This paper presents a new method for bus voltage magnitude screening for transmission line and transformer outages. Classification and ranking errors of sensitivity-based methods are overcome by imposing a non-linear constrained optimization module on the well-known linear feed-forward computational algorithms. Genetic algorithms are preferred as computation tool because of its implementation simplicity as well as for its parallel processing advantage in future computers. Accuracy of the method is tested on IEEE 57-bus test system and IEEE 118-bus test system. The results are compared with those of the full load flow to verify the strength of the method proposed in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]