Binary Jaya Algorithm Based Optimal Placement of Phasor Measurement Units for Power System Observability

Owing to the technological advancement in communication areas, presently, the security and the reliability of operating power system is very much possible on real-time platform. Phasor measurement units (PMUs) are based on these advance communication technology and are one of the most important equipment for electric utility, now a days, helpful in maintaining a healthy operating power system. It is necessary requirement to deploy PMUs in whole power system to achieve full observability but it is not economically feasible. Therefore, placement of PMUs at strategic locations is required to be obtained optimally while preserving the full observability of the system. In this paper, the solution of optimal PMUs placement problem (OPPP) is addressed using a novel binary Jaya algorithm. The complete power system observability with maximum measurement redundancy is considered as the performance index in OPPP. To test the supremacy and accuracy of the proposed algorithm, different standard test systems are examined for solving OPPP and the obtained results are compared with other state-of-art algorithms reported in the literature. The analysis of the results shows that the proposed algorithm is equally good or better in solving the problem when compared to other reported algorithms.