Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for Accelerating Volt / VAR Load Flow Optimization

Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems 300 and methods 100 for accelerating volt/VAR load flow optimization. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for accelerating load flow 102 for integrated volt/var control (IVVC) optimization. The method can include evaluating load flow 102 on lines of an electrical network, identifying combinable network lines, combining the identified combinable network nodes to reduce network complexity, and determining load flow optimization for IVVC based at least in part on the reduced complexity network.