An Innovatory Method Based on Continuation Power Flow to Analyze Power System Voltage Stability with Distributed Generation Penetration

Table 3

Comparisons between CCPF and MCPF of the IEEE 57-bus test system.

Output parameter	Without DGs		With DGs
	CCPF	MCPF	CCPF	MCPF
Predictor-corrector steps	50	38	27	20
Computational time (ms)	934.64	850.21	745.66	710.25
Maximum loading factor	1.774	1.8434	2.7936	2.8915
Stability margin (MW)	968.12	1,054.93	2,243.44	2,365.89
Weakest bus	31	31	31	31