Authors : Reza Gholamhosseinpour and Hossein Tohidi
Abstract: Capacitor placement in the distribution network has been the subject of many researches and of interest for Distribution Companies because of its significant impact on supplying reactive power and reducing losses. In recent years, by developing electricity market, passing laws protecting by electricity management and increasing tendency of private sector for investment on the distributed generations, the optimum placement problem of these equipment has been considered by electricity companies and researchers to reduce losses, increase reliability of distribution network or improve power quality and many studys have been presented in this context. In this study, we discuss determining the optimum values of capacitor bank and distributed generation and simultaneous placement of them in the distribution network to specify active and reactive power values of the network in order to reduce losses and improve voltage profile. Genetic Algorithm (GA) has been used to solve the optimization problem and the proposed method has been implemented on the standard IEEE 30-bus network and the results will show that the optimum placement of distributed generation and capacitor in the network reduce losses and improve voltage profile.
Reza Gholamhosseinpour and Hossein Tohidi, 2016. Determining the Optimum Values of Capacitor Bank and Distributed Generation and Simultaneous Placement of them in the Distributed Network to Reduce Losses and Improve Voltage Stability. International Journal of Signal System Control and Engineering Application, 9: 42-47.