Can you please point out research possibilities in Power system Analysis, load flow or anything similar that needs to be solved through research. A possible PhD Thesis.
I think application of probabilistic techniques for power system studies is a hot and a good topic for PhD thesis. Probabilistic techniques provide better decision making capability than the deterministic techniques. Please see the attached paper for more information.
From the recent trends in smart grids, residential microgrids seems to be the next step when it comes to active distribution systems. You may be interested in our recent research outcomes.
I think smal signal stability studies is of interest in research now a days it is intrested to study the modes of oscillations and finding what is the best methods that increase damping ratios with AVR s and PSS
See "Electra" -CIGRE journal. The journal periodically publishes a list of actual problems (need to be solved) and forms the main directions of scientific research in the area of electrical power engineering.
Wind Resource Assessment and Wind Farm Planning Technology With involvement of Energy Storage Systems can be Good . However, Working on Capacity credit is not yet known very well can be challenging for a Doctoral or Post Doctoral opportunity.
All you need to do is create your account at https://e-cigre.org by providing your email address and password. Failry normal way of registration.
After you created your account, you can download most of their publications free of charge. Usually Technical Brochures, Electra magazine and other documents published more than three years ago are free to download. All documents published within last three years are only free to paying members of Cigre. Although they are not cheap, you can buy those documents from Cigre.
Individual membership is not very expensive for resources provided by Cigre.
Something similar applies to EPRI publications as well.