Optimal planning of multiple distributed generation sources in distribution networks: A new approach

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3301-3308

  Alrashidi, M R ^a   Alhajri, M F ^a  

^a The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Distributed generation sources; Particle swarm optimization; Power system

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION; DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SOURCE; EQUALITY CONSTRAINTS; IMPROVED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; INEQUALITY CONSTRAINT; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMAL PLANNING; OPTIMAL SIZE; PARTICLE SWARM; POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; POWER FLOW ALGORITHM; POWER FLOWS; PROBLEM CONSTRAINTS; PSO ALGORITHMS; REAL POWER LOSS; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SUB-PROBLEMS; TEST CASE;

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC LOAD DISTRIBUTION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 79960544678     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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