Holomorphic embedding approach as an alternative method for solving the power flow problem

Abstract

This paper presents results of the implementation and description of the basic formulation for the Holomorphic Embedding Load Flow Method (HELM). The approach is a noniterative technique proposed as an alternative method to solve the power flow problem. The basic formulation of the method is implemented by generation of an interface to use the data structure of the traditional MATPOWER. This is a free code tool which is developed in Matlab. Additionally, the same data files of this tool are used as input data for study carried out in this work. Also, the output results are adapted to have similar characteristics to the MATPOWER's output. Experiments and results for seven power systems demonstrate the validity of the new tool.