Operation level and service life of oil-immersed bushings are related to the moisture inside theirs cellulose insulation. However

the parameters extracted by using existing frequency domain spectroscopy (FDS) based methods strongly depends on the data within a certain range or several sampling points

which could decrease the accuracy of extraction results if the measured FDS data is unreliable in the above regions. Given this issue

a universal and accessible tool is proposed to stimulate the change rule of FDS curves versus entire frequency regions

by which a set of feature parameters can be readily obtained by using the Taylor series model. Then

the database characterizing the moisture is established. An alternative method for evaluating the moisture in bushing cellulose insulation is proposed based on FDS and grey relational analysis (GRA). The feasibility and applicability of the proposed methods were later proved by the moisture evaluation of transformer oil-immersed bushings

in which the G RA is applied as a tool for moisture classification. The results showed that the average relative (absolute error) is less than 14.6% (0.17%). Thus

the proposed method can be preliminarily utilized for evaluating the moisture inside the bushing cellulose insulation.