Optimal Hybrid Renewable Generator for Techno-Economic Benefits in Smart Distribution Network

Abstract

Increasing penetration of Hybrid Renewable Generator in recent year's present new challenges for planning and optimal operation of the Smart Distribution Network. For this purpose, performance indices introduced for determining the suitable position of HRGs together with shunt-capacitors. However, the hosting capacities of HRG determined by use of Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm. The performance of the proposed methods validated on standards IEEE 34-nodes and IEEE 37-nodes radial distribution networks (RDN). The results have shown improvement of voltage level from O. 902p.u to 1. OOlp.u, reduction of power loss from 1.12MW to 0.64MW and diminished reactive power loss from 0.72MVAR to O.34MVAR by integrating of HRG to RDN. Results suggest that the proposed methods are reliable and can apply to the real radial distribution networks.