Static transmission expansion planning using Heuristic and metaheuristic techniques

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

Phillipe Vilaça Gomes (Author) FEUP; João Tomé Saraiva (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: IEEE Power Tech Eindhoven 2015

Pages: 1-6

IEEE Power Tech Eindhoven 2015

Eindhoven, 29 de Junho a 2 de Julho de 2015

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Electrical engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-00K-2SB

DOI: 10.1109/PTC.2015.7232377

Abstract (EN): This paper describes a hybrid tool to perform Static Transmission Expansion Planning, STEP, studies and its application to the Garver 6-Bus academic system and to the Southern Brazilian Transmission equivalent real system. The developed STEP tool integrates two phases as follows. The first one uses Constructive Heuristic Algorithms (CHA) to reduce the search space, and the second uses Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to identify the final solution. This hybridization between CHAs and PSO proved to be very effective and shows good performance to reduce the size of the STEP search space and to identify good quality solutions. These are relevant issues given the combinatorial nature of investment problems leading to the explosion of the number of alternative plans, one of the greatest difficulties faced in this planning problem.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6