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Voltage Instability Indicators

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Voltage Control and Protection in Electrical Power Systems

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In the first section of the chapter, we discuss how to recognise voltage instability using reliable indices, mainly those having real-time performance. The introduction provides a general overview of voltage stability indices (VSI) as proposed in the literature, distinguishing the great amount of VSI that fall into the off-line category from the few belonging to the on-line group that can be properly considered true real-time indicators.

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Corsi, S. (2015). Voltage Instability Indicators. In: Voltage Control and Protection in Electrical Power Systems. Advances in Industrial Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6636-8_9

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