A Fully Distributed Power Flow Algorithm with Exponentially Fast Convergence

In this paper, a fully distributed power flow algorithm is proposed. The method is composed of outer iteration and inner iteration. The outer iteration is identical to Newton's method, while the inner iteration solves the power flow correction equation using an exponentially fast converged distributed algorithm. The proposed algorithm does not need coordination infrastructure and each area in power systems only need to communicate less important information with neighbors. The numerical tests show that the method is able to converge with the same behavior as Newton's method.