Available Transfer Capability Enhancement with FACTS Devices in the Deregulated Electricity Market

In order to facilitate the electricity market operation and trade in the restructured environment, ample transmission capability should be provided to satisfy the demand of increasing power transactions. The conflict of this requirement and the restrictions on the transmission expansion in the restructured electricity market has motivated the development of methodologies to enhance the available transfer capability (ATC) of existing transmission grids. The insertion of flexible AC transmission System (FACTS) devices in electrical systems seems to be a promising strategy to enhance single area ATC and multi-area ATC. In this paper, the viability and technical merits of boosting single area ATC and multi-area ATC using Thyristor controlled series compensator (TCSC), static VAR compensator (SVC) and unified power flow controller (UPFC) in single device and multi-type three similar and different device combinations are analyzed. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is employed to obtain the optimal settings of FACTS devices. The installation cost is also calculated. The study has been carried out on IEEE 30 bus and IEEE 118 bus systems for the selected bilateral, multilateral and area wise transactions.

[1]  G. T. Heydt,et al.  Power flow control and power flow studies for systems with FACTS devices , 1998 .

[2]  Pan Seok Shin,et al.  A Magnetostrictive Force and Vibration Mode Analysis of 3 kW BLDC Motor by a Magneto-Mechanical Coupling Formulation , 2011 .

[3]  A. M. Leite da Silva,et al.  Evaluation of transfer capabilities of transmission systems in competitive environments , 2004 .

[4]  N. P. Padhy,et al.  Application of particle swarm optimization technique and its variants to generation expansion planning problem , 2004 .

[5]  Boumediène Allaoua,et al.  Application of a Robust Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller Synthesis on a Buck-Boost DC-DC Converter Power Supply for an Electric Vehicle Propulsion System , 2011 .

[6]  Y. H. Song,et al.  Application of stochastic programming for available transfer capability enhancement using FACTS devices , 2000, 2000 Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting (Cat. No.00CH37134).

[7]  S. Gerbex,et al.  Optimal Location of Multi-Type FACTS Devices in a Power System by Means of Genetic Algorithms , 2001, IEEE Power Engineering Review.

[8]  M. A. Abido,et al.  Optimal power flow using particle swarm optimization , 2002 .

[9]  Narayana Prasad Padhy,et al.  Comparison and application of evolutionary programming techniques to combined economic emission dispatch with line flow constraints , 2003 .

[10]  Muhammad Murtadha Othman,et al.  Fast evaluation of available transfer capability using cubic-spline interpolation technique , 2005 .

[11]  James Kennedy,et al.  Particle swarm optimization , 2002, Proceedings of ICNN'95 - International Conference on Neural Networks.

[12]  S. C. Srivastava,et al.  Available Transfer Capability (ATC) Determination in a Competitive Electricity Market Using AC Distribution Factors , 2004 .

[13]  Georgios C. Stamtsis,et al.  Optimal choice and allocation of FACTS devices in deregulated electricity market using genetic algorithms , 2004, IEEE PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition, 2004..

[14]  Riccardo Poli,et al.  Particle swarm optimization , 1995, Swarm Intelligence.

[15]  Y. H. Song,et al.  Available transfer capability enhancement using FACTS devices , 2003 .

[16]  Hari Om Gupta,et al.  FACTS devices location for enhancement of total transfer capability , 2001, 2001 IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.01CH37194).

[17]  T. T. Ma.  Enhancement of power transmission systems by using multiple UPFCs on evolutionary programming , 2003, 2003 IEEE Bologna Power Tech Conference Proceedings,.

[18]  D. Povh.  Modeling of FACTS in power system studies , 2000, 2000 IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.00CH37077).

[19]  Ahad Kazemi,et al.  Modeling and simulation of SVC and TCSC to study their limits on maximum loadability point , 2004 .

[20]  Harinder Sawhney,et al.  Application of unified power flow controller for available transfer capability enhancement , 2004 .

[21]  M. Saravanan,et al.  Application of particle swarm optimization technique for optimal location of FACTS devices considering cost of installation and system loadability , 2007 .

[22]  P. Venkatesh,et al.  Multi-Area Available Transfer Capability Determination in the Restructured Electricity Market , 2008 .