Experimental Design and Models of Power System Optimization and Control

This paper reflects results of research into the use of factorial experimental design for rational constructing sensitivity and functionally oriented models for system optimization and control. The questions of overcoming difficulties of statistical evaluating the results of experiments with models of systems, but not real systems are discussed. The results of the paper are of a universal character and are illustrated by applications to power engineering problems: the construction of sensitivity indices for voltage and reactive power control in power systems and functionally oriented models to evaluate power system reaction in solving problems of optimizing network configuration in distribution systems. Key-Words: Sensitivity Models, Functionally Oriented Models, Factorial Experimental Design, Fuzzy Logic Based Voltage and Reactive Power Control, Distribution Network Reconfigutration.