Capacitor placement in distribution systems using genetic algorithms and tabu search

Authors:
J. Nikoukar;M. Gandomkar
Affiliations:
Saveh Azad University, Iran;Saveh Azad University, Iran
Venue:
AEE'05 Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS international conference on Applications of electrical engineering
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper presents a new method for determining capacitor placement in distribution systems. The capacitor placement problem consist of finding places to install capacitor bank in an electrical distribution system aiming to reduce losses due to the compensation of the reactive component of power flow. The capacitor placement is hard to solve in sense of global optimization due to the high non linear and mixed integer problem. To solve the problem efficiently, this paper focuses on complex Genetic Algorithm (GA) and tabu search (TS) that is two of the efficient optimization methods. The proposed method has been tested on a real distribution system.