This work shows an alternative method to determine the Voltage Unbalance Factor in a power grid by using both the mean value of the line voltages and Current Unbalance Factor in induction motors. Twenty unbalanced voltage points on three induction motors were used in order to compare the two methods. The influence of the measurement error of both the voltmeters and the ammeters on the resulting Voltage Unbalance Factor was studied, and the validation was made with laboratory data for one of the three motors analyzed, in addition to the simulations carried out. The proposed Voltage Unbalance Factor was compared with the most typical method in the standards to obtain this factor, showing that the proposed factor has a better approach than the standard factor to determine the value of the Voltage Unbalance Factor in an unbalanced power system.
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