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A reactive power planning procedure considering iterative identification of VAR candidate buses

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This article proposes two-step procedure for solving the reactive power planning (RPP) problem. An iterative method is introduced in the first step to place the additional sources of reactive power and their associated maximum sizes. In the second step, several integrated strategies of differential evolution (DE) are suggested to optimize the RPP variables. Three types of objective function are investigated which aims at minimizing system power losses, minimizing the costs of operation and VAR investment and improving the voltage profile distribution at load buses. The strategies performance is examined on IEEE 30-bus test system and on the West Delta network as a real Egyptian section. The evolution of the system considering the annual growth rate of peak load in the Egyptian system has been taken into consideration at different loading levels. Application of the proposed method is carried out on large-scale power system of 354-bus test system. The strategies robustness and consistency are compared to DE, genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimizer. The proposed two-step procedure using the proposed DE strategy is assessed compared to single-step RPP procedure. Furthermore, its mutation and crossover scales are optimally specified. Simulation outcomes denote that the proposed DE strategy is excessively superior, more powerful and consistent than the other compared optimizers which indicate that the proposed strategy of DE algorithm can be very efficient to solve the RPP. The proposed strategies are proven as alternative solution strategies, especially for large-scale power systems.

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Abbreviations

CMAES:

Covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy

COMs:

Classical optimization methods

DE:

Differential evolution

DOE:

Design of experiment

EP:

Evolutionary programming

GA:

Genetic algorithm

IM:

Iterative method

IP:

Interior point

LP:

Linear programming

MFLP:

Multi-objective fuzzy linear programming

MIP:

Mixed integer programming

MNSGA-II:

Modified nondominated sorted genetic algorithm-II

MOs:

Meta-heuristic optimizers

NLP:

Nonlinear programming

PSO:

Particle swarm optimizer

QP:

Quadratic programming

RGA:

Real-coding genetic algorithm

RPP:

Reactive power planning

SO:

Seeker optimizer

SQP:

Sequential quadratic programming

WDN:

West Delta network

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Shaheen, A.M., El-Sehiemy, R.A. & Farrag, S.M. A reactive power planning procedure considering iterative identification of VAR candidate buses. Neural Comput & Applic 31, 653–674 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-017-3098-1

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