Application of Channel Components Transform to design shunt reactive compensation for voltage stability improvement

• Channel Components Transform (CCT) is a new technique to decouple power networks.
• This paper extends the application of CCT to voltage stability enhancement.
• A CCT-based algorithm for shunt compensation is proposed.
• The proposed strategy is direct, effective, practical, and easy to be used.

Channel Components Transform (CCT) is a network decoupling transform that has recently been proposed. The effective performance of CCT in voltage stability analysis and monitoring has been shown before. This paper extends the application of CCT to voltage stability enhancement. For this purpose, the CCT is used and a strategy for shunt compensation is proposed in order to improve the voltage stability of power systems. The proposed strategy is direct, effective and practical. The detail algorithms of the proposed strategy are presented in this paper. The strategy is also verified by case studies using standard test systems.