With the ever-increasing complexities in power systems across the worldwide, especially opening of electric power markets, it becomes more and more important to provide stable, secure, controlled and high quality electric power on today’s environment. The deregulation and competitive environment in the contemporary power networks will imply a new scenario in terms of load and power flow conditi...

This paper presents a genetic algorithm based approach for solving security constrained optimal power flow problem (SCOPF) including FACTS devices. The optimal location of FACTS devices are identified using an index called overload index and the optimal values are obtained using an enhanced genetic algorithm. The optimal allocation by the proposed method optimizes the investment, taking into ac...

Distribution networks transport electric energy to the end user from distribution substations. Power utilities are looking for improved power delivery performance. The performance of the delivery system is measured by the power loss of the system. The increase in power loss increases the operating cost of the distribution system. This paper presents an algorithm to minimizing the power loss of ...