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

Table 4

Comparisons between CCPF and MCPF of the IEEE 118-bus test system.

Output parameter	Without DGs		With DGs
	CCPF	MCPF	CCPF	MCPF
Predictor-corrector steps	177	162	215	198
Computational time (ms)	3,238.5	3,184.6	3,814.2	3,725.1
Maximum loading factor	10.5820	10.9091	20.2583	21.1519
Stability margin (MW)	40,646.84	42,034.4	81,693.71	85,484.36
Weakest bus	33	33	44	44