With the rapid development of the wide area measurement system(WAMS), the disturbance source location method based on oscillation energy has been widely used in low frequency oscillation monitoring. This paper focuses on the applicability research of different oscillation energy methods. Taking the forced power oscillation caused by the excitation system abnormality as an example, the disturbance source location accuracy of three oscillation energy methods is compared. The results show that it is important to extract the dominant component of...