PSO based reactive power coordination of multiple dispatchable distributed generations & voltage controlled devices

Abstract

The presence of multiple distributed generations on radial distribution system increases switching operations of voltage controlled devices (VCDs). Reduction of switching operations (SOs) of VCDs in the presence of multiple dispatchable distributed generations (MDDGs) is a demanding research area now a days. This paper proposes a novel method for the reduction of SOs of VCDs together with system power loss, in which we estimated the load one day in advance which makes MDDGs to dispatch the reactive power cooperatively with VCDs and particle swarm optimization (PSO) method used for solving multiple objective function. Multiple objective function (MOF) is formulated with cost of power loss and cost of SOs. The proposed method is tested on 16 nodes practical system under different operating output patterns and locations considering under load tap changers (ULTCs) and shunt capacitors (SCs) as VCDs. Simulation results clearly depicts that this method is effectively achieved the goals compared with existing conventional optimization techniques..