Optimal Placement of Wind Turbines: Improved Honey Bee Mating Optimization

Small scale wind turbines can be used in indoor facilities that are mainly either stand-alone or gridconnected systems. With grid contiguous turbines, the output from the wind turbine is directly connected to the existing mains electricity supply. For this purpose Improved Honey Bee Mating Optimization (IHBMO) technique is considered as an optimization algorithm to power system. Also the wind farm in form of doubly fed induction generator penetrating is formulated into a power system. Several technical issues arise with the close spacing of multiple wind turbines in a wind farm, individually one with a severely limited spatial footprint. Wake effect is one of the most important agents under consideration that can lead to fluctuations in the output power of a wind farm and significantly decrease its energy production. Thus it is desired to determine optimal positions for installing multiple wind turbines. In this paper we minimize the fuel cost and emission of thermal units simultaneously by changing the location and varying the sizes of wind farm. Simulation results show the effectiveness of our propose algorithm.