A novel approach based on cuckoo search for DG allocation in distribution network

International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 672-679

  Moravej, Zahra ^a   Akhlaghi, Amir ^a  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cuckoo search; Distributed generation; Power loss; Voltage profile

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE RATES; CUCKOO SEARCHES; FINE ADJUSTMENTS; POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; POWER-LOSSES; TARGET VALUES; VOLTAGE DEVIATIONS; VOLTAGE PROFILE; VOLTAGE VARIATION;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

POWER QUALITY;

EID: 84866541037     PISSN: 01420615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2012.08.009     Document Type: Article

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