Summary
Recently, both utilities and consumers have paid great attention to voltage fluctuation (flicker) problem, which is defined as low‐frequency fluctuation on the base signal of voltage. For mitigating the flicker, identification of its source is the first step. In this paper, a new method is proposed for identifying the location of flicker sources in a multi‐flicker sources power network in a more reliable and precise manner by a minimum number of monitoring points. This method is based on the wavelet transform (WT), the approximate model of the line and flicker power theory. In addition, in this method, a new factor is proposed for determining the contributions of individual consumers and utility providers in the global flicker level of a common coupling bus‐bar. For validating the performance of the proposed method, comprehensive simulations have been performed in MATLAB environment on a single‐ and multi‐flicker sources system based on IEEE 34 node test feeder. As proved by the results, the proposed method is able to identify the contributions and locations of flicker sources with higher reliability and accuracy compared with other methods.