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Abstract Voltage stability problems are now taking much more consideration due to its importance to the electric utility industry and due to the major consequences related to the voltage instability. The energy function technique has been previously applied to investigate the voltage stability of power systems for constant power load model only. This research deals with the effect of load modeling( constant impedance, constant current and constant power load models) on voltage stability studies. The proposed formulation has been applied to both a test system and Ontario- Hydro real power system. For the constant power load model, the gradual load increase is followed by a decrease in the system voltage stability until finally reaching the collapse point. For higher constant impedance and constant current load percentages, and especially constant impedance, the gradual load increase is followed by a decrease in system stability until reaching first a critical power level (maximum power).This maximum power occurs at a voltage level not much lower than the system nominal value. Any further increase of load fails to raise the system power beyond that critical power level (max. power). On the contrary, the system total power starts to decrease due to the dependency of such loads on the voltage levels, which continues dropping until reaching the collapse point at a power level very much lower than the maximum power. The ANN methodology is also applied to the voltage stability problem, a suitable ANN structure has been selected and trained. The ANN shows matching results to those obtained by the energy function technique. |