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Conventional methods can only locate some of the Type-1 load flow solutions in power systems and the located solutions are inadequate for voltage stability assessment. This paper proposes a hybrid genetic algorithm/particle swarm optimization algorithm for locating all the Type-1 load flow solutions. The characteristics of the Type-1 solutions are described in the paper. The hybrid algorithm is applied to two test systems. The test results obtained are satisfactory and promising for voltage stability monitoring applications