APPLICATION OF PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR OPTIMAL REACTIVE POWER DISPATCH

Abstract

Reactive power dispatch plays a major role in order to present good facility secure and profitable operation. Optimal reactive power dispatch is useful to improve the voltage profile, to reduce losses, to improve voltage stability etc. This paper presents a Particle Swarm optimization (PSO) based approach for solving optimal Reactive Power Dispatch (ORPD) in power system. The proposed algorithm has been applied to the IEEE 30-bus system to find the optimal reactive power control variables, while keeping the system under safe found to be more effective for this task.