Abstract:Automatic identification of power system topology is an important foundation for automatic electromagnetic transient modeling. Traditional algorithms for power system topology identification are limited to single tier description,which cannot meet the demands of modular modeling. Therefore,a new hierarchical identification method for power system topology based on islanding search is proposed. This method provides an approach for automatic hierarchical identification of " inter - station topology + in - station topology" based on mainstream simulation data for power system analysis. The algorithm principle and details are given firstly,and then the algorithm is tested on CEPRI 36 nodes system using an actual grid simulation data of a certain province,which proves to be correct and effective. The proposed algorithm can be used directly in automatic topology generation and visual modeling of complex power system in province scale.