Reactive power plays an important role in supporting the real power transfer by maintaining voltage stability and system reliability. It is a critical element for a transmission operator to ensure the reliability of an electric system while minimizing the cost associated with it. The traditional objectives of reactive power dispatch are focused on the technical side of reactive support such as ...

In this paper, new optimal power flow (OPF) techniques are proposed based on multi-objective methodologies to optimize active and reactive power dispatch while maximizing voltage security in power systems. The use of interior point methods together with goal programming and linearly combined objective functions as the basic optimization techniques is explained in detail. The effects of minimizi...

Voltage stability issues are growing challenges in many modern power systems. This paper proposes optimizing the size and location of Static VAR Compensator (SVC) devices using a Fuzzy Weighted Seeker Optimization Algorithm (FWSOA), as an effective solution to overcome such issues. Although the primary purpose of SVC is bus voltage regulation, it can also be useful for voltage stability enhance...

this paper proposes the exchange market algorithm (ema) to solve the combined economic and emission dispatch (ceed) problems in thermal power plants. the ema is a new, robust and efficient algorithm to exploit the global optimum point in optimization problems. existence of two seeking operators in ema provides a high ability in exploiting global optimum point. in order to show the capabilities ...

Reactive power dispatch plays a main role in order to provide good facility secure and economic operation in the power system. In a power system optimal reactive power dispatch is supported to improve the voltage profile, to reduce losses, to improve voltage stability, to reduce cost etc. This paper presents a brief literature survey of reactive power dispatch and also discusses a comparative s...

This paper presents an algorithm for solving the multi-objective reactive power dispatch problem in power system. Modal analysis of the system is used for static voltage stability assessment. Loss minimization and maximization of voltage stability margin are taken as the objectives. Generator terminal voltages, reactive power generation of the capacitor banks and tap changing transformer settin...

one of the significant strategies of the power systems is economic dispatch (ed) problem, which is defined as the optimal generation of power units to produce energy at the lowest cost by fulfilling the demand within several limits. the undeniable impacts of ramp rate limits, valve loading, prohibited operating zone, spinning reserve and multi-fuel option on the economic dispatch of practical p...

Optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD) problem is an important problem in the operation of power systems. It is a nonlinear and mixed integer programming problem, which determines optimal values for control parameters of reactive power producers to optimize specific objective functions while satisfying several technical constraints. In this paper, stochastic multi-objective ORPD (SMO-ORPD) prob...

TIn this paper, a solution to reactive power dispatch problem with a novel particle swarm ToptimizationT approach based on multi-agent systems (MAPSO) is presented. The method integrates multi-agent system (MAS) and particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO). An agent in MAPSO represents a particle to PSO and a candidate solution to the optimization problem. All agents live in a lattice-like e...