Adaptive Range Composite Differential Evolution for Fast Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch

This paper proposes a novel adaptive range composite differential evolution (ARCoDE) algorithm to efficiently and accurately solve optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD) problem. Because of strategy for control parameters, the proposed ARCoDE possesses superior exploration exploitation capabilities that can handle ORPD problem involving complicated constraints discrete continuous variables. has been demonstrated in case studies using IEEE flow testbeds considering complex wind demand scenarios. The performance further validated through comparisons with several award-winning algorithms 2014 Competition on “Application Modern Heuristic Optimization Algorithms Solving Optimal Power Flow Problems”, given limited iterations evolutionary optimization process.