The Optimal Placement of Wind Turbine in a Distribution System

This paper presents an approach for determining optimal placement of wind turbine in the distribution systems. In order to minimize the system losses the optimization approach is solved by the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). To enhance the performance of the optimization approach, a load flow model with Equivalent Current Injection (ECI) is used to analyze the power flow of distribution systems for getting better convergent characteristics. Example of Taipower distribution feeder is presented to illustrate the efficiency and feasible of the proposed algorithm. Simulation results show that with proper placement of wind turbine can be used to reduce system loss, and maintain the voltage profile.