INVESTIGATION OF PARAMETERS AFFECTING VOLTAGE SECURITY OF THE HELLENIC INTERCONNECTED SYSTEM

The Hellenic Interconnected System pre-sents a structural geographical imbalance between generation sites and load centers. This imbalance leads to bulk power transfers on long electrical distances leading to voltage stability problems. In order to improve the opera-tional practices aiming at improving the voltage security, an on-line Voltage Security Assessment tool has been installed at the National Control Center of the Hellenic Transmission System Operator that operates and controls the interconnected power system of Greece. This paper presents some indicative results obtained by the use of this tool. The analysis includes the investigation of the main parameters that affect the voltage stability of the system, such as the position of non-automatic taps of autotrans-formers, the network topology, and the spatial distribution of generation.