The invention discloses a 
voltage sag source identification method based on Hilbert-Huang transformation and 
wavelet packet energy spectra, and belongs to the field of 
electric energy quality analysis of 
electric power system. The method includes the steps: firstly, performing EMD (empirical mode 
decomposition) for a three-phase 
voltage signal to obtain IMF (intrinsic mode function) components; secondly, performing n-layer 
wavelet packet 
decomposition for the IMF components to obtain energy spectra of frequency bands; thirdly, setting a larger 
wavelet packet coefficient of low-
frequency band energy into zero, and reconstructing wavelet packet coefficients corresponding to other frequency bands to obtain an IMF without low-frequency illusive components; finally, performing Hilbert transformation on the IMF without the illusive components to obtain an HH (Hilbert-Huang) 
spectrogram, and identifying 
voltage sag sources according to catastrophe points, amplitudes, 
harmonic waves and frequencies of the HH 
spectrogram. Different characteristics of different 
voltage sag sources can be identified from the HH 
spectrogram only by taking the amplitudes, the catastrophe points and the 
harmonic waves as characteristics, the 
voltage sag sources are differentiated, so that times of non-identification and mistaken identification are effectively decreased, and identification efficiency is improved.