Optimal planning of a micro‐grid containing tidal barrage equipped to the hydro‐pumps

Due to the advantages of micro-grids including power losses and voltage drops reduction, reliability improvement reduction in transmission network cost, numerous clean renewable resources such as wind, tidal solar are developed different countries world. The investment cost energy-based generation units especially barrages is high, generate cost-effective electricity from resources, optimization process should be performed. In this paper, optimal planning a micro-grid containing energy storage device new mixture barrage photovoltaic system For purpose, characteristics type plant number turbines, sluices hydro-pumps, turbine tip hub diameters sluice width determined maximum generated. Then, systems batteries obtained supply required load minimum cost. To optimize objective functions, heuristic approaches particle swarm, genetic imperial competitive algorithms (ICAs) applied, paper. study effectiveness proposed approach, It deduced numerical results that swarm method has performed best determining solution.