Global swing instability of multimachine power systems

Abstract

This paper studies global instability in swing equations of multimachine power systems. Global instability is related to the undesirable phenomenon of power system, implying that most of all generators in a system coherently lose synchronism with the remaining generators of the system. By analyzing a power system with the loop transmission network, we analytically show that global instability can occur as a result of the interplay between network topology of the system and local dynamics of generators in the system. This suggests a possibility of control for global instability by varying network topology of the system.