The invention provides a voltage dip source positioning method based on the disturbance power direction and belongs to automatic monitoring methods for power grid voltage dip source positioning. The method is characterized in that under the effect that a disturbance voltage in a power grid fault process is obtained according to the superposition principle of linear circuits, the direction of an active disturbance power flow is used for accurately positioning a voltage dip source; when active disturbance power is positive, a disturbance source is located at the upstream portion of a monitoring point; when the active disturbance power is negative, the disturbance source is located at the downstream portion of the monitoring point; an algorithm of the corresponding disturbance power is given. The voltage dip source positioning method can be used for certainly positioning voltage dips caused by various power grid faults, is suitable for radiation type or ring type or single-circuit type or two-circuit type or single-power-supply type or multi-power-supply type grid structure power grids, and is also suitable for voltage dip source positioning caused by capacitor switching, transformer switching and large motor starting disturbance; according to the voltage dip source positioning method, the voltage and current of the monitoring point need to be sampled synchronously.