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- Title
An Improved Algorithm for Optimal Load Shedding in Power Systems.
- Authors
Larik, Raja Masood; Mustafa, Mohd Wazir; Aman, Muhammad Naveed; Jumani, Touqeer Ahmed; Sajid, Suhaib; Panjwani, Manoj Kumar
- Abstract
A blackout is usually the result of load increasing beyond the transmission capacity of the power system. A collapsing system enters a contingency state before the blackout. This contingency state is characterized by a decline in the bus voltage magnitudes. To avoid blackouts, power systems may start shedding load when a contingency state occurs called under voltage load shedding (UVLS). The success of a UVLS scheme in arresting the contingency state depends on shedding the optimum amount of load at the optimum time and location. This paper proposes a hybrid algorithm based on genetic algorithms (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO). The proposed algorithm can be used to find the optimal amount of load shed for systems under stress (overloaded) in smart grids. The proposed algorithm uses the fast voltage stability index (FVSI) to determine the weak buses in the system and then calculates the optimal amount of load shed to recover a collapsing system. The performance analysis shows that the proposed algorithm can improve the voltage profile by 0.022 per units with up to 75% less load shedding and a convergence time that is 53% faster than GA.
- Subjects
ELECTRIC power failures; ELECTRIC power transmission; ELECTRICAL load shedding; GENETIC algorithms; SMART power grids
- Publication
Energies (19961073), 2018, Vol 11, Issue 7, p1808
- ISSN
1996-1073
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/en11071808