Artificial Bee Colony Optimization for Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch Incorporating FACTS Devices

This paper illustrates, for the first time, the use of artificial bee colony optimization ABC technique to study optimal reactive power dispatch ORPD in power system with the use of flexible AC transmission systems FACTS. FACTS controller cannot only increase the power transmission capacity without installing new transmission lines, but they can also enhance voltage profile and reduce transmission loss in power system. Two types of FACTS devices namely, thyristor-controlled series capacitor TCSC and thyristor-controlled phase shifter TCPS are considered in this paper. A standard IEEE 30-bus test system with multiple TCSC and TCPS devices is used for two different objective functions to validate the performance of the proposed method. The simulation results demonstrates the ability of the ABC to produce better optimal solutions compared to particle swarm optimization with inertia weight approach PSOIWA and real coded genetic algorithm RGA.

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