The increasing integration of renewable energies into the grid is calling for expansion power transport capacities in distribution system. Yet, could require long authorization procedures and cannot be always asserted. Therefore, a higher utilization existing becoming increasingly necessary today. This paper proposes new time series-based planning method systems using classical instruments as w...

This paper presents a combined framework for power distribution network expansion planning (DNEP) and energy storage systems (ESSs) allocation in active networks (ADNs) hosting large amount of photovoltaic (PV) generations loads. The proposed DNEP ensures the reliable operation targeted ADN with objective achieving its dispatchability while minimizing grid losses by determining optimal to conne...

Forecasting electric demand and its geographical distribution is a prerequisite to generate expansion planning scenarios for distribution planning. This paper presents a comprehensive methodology that uses a fuzzy inference model over a GIS support, to capture the behavior of influence factors on load growth patterns and map the potentia1 for development. The load growth is spread over maps wit...

in this paper, first, a new criterion, titled “surplus percent of the customers” is defined for static transmission expansion planning in restructured power systems. then by a simple example, the new criterion is compared with some already presented market-based criteria and it is shown that the new criterion can realistically evaluate the transmission network expansion from the market view. in...

The vast majority of the developed planning methods for power distribution systems consider only one objective function to optimize. This function represents the economical costs of the systems. However, there are other planning aspects that should be considered but they can not be expressed in terms of costs; therefore, they need to be formulated as separate objective functions. This paper pre...

The connection points between MV and LV distribution networks are MV substations. Optimal sitting, sizing and timing of MV substation placement is the major planning problem in MV-LV distribution system planning projects. In this paper the optimal MV substation placement problem is solved using Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) as a new developed heuristic optimization algorithm. This pro...