Distributed Generations (DGs) are utilized to supply the active and reactive power in the transmission and distribution systems. These types of power sources have many benefits such as power quality enhancement, voltage deviation reduction, power loss reduction, load shedding reduction, reliability improvement, etc. In order to reach the above benefits, the optimal placement and sizing of DG is...

This paper shows how a competitive ancillary service market for voltage control/reactive power might operate and what it might look like, given the eminently local nature of the service. An automatic voltage control would dynamically manage the reactive power available in a certain geographic region and a local market in reactive power could then be developed similarly to that proposed for the ...

Hydropower plant and especially micro-hydropower plant is an available, reliable and economical energy source. Micro-hydropower plant is one of the most environment-friendly technology, use and development of which leads to reduction of energy consumption sporadically and worldwide. Along with the growth of these power plants, the issues related to the control of electrical parameters such ...

Hydropower plant and especially micro-hydropower plant is an available, reliable and economical energy source. Micro-hydropower plant is one of the most environment-friendly technology, use and development of which leads to reduction of energy consumption sporadically and worldwide. Along with the growth of these power plants, the issues related to the control of electrical parameters such ...

This paper proposes a fully distributed control methodology for secondary control of AC microgrids. The control framework includes three modules: voltage regulator, reactive power regulator, and active power/frequency regulator. The voltage regulator module maintains the average voltage of the microgrid distribution line at the rated value. The reactive power regulator compares the local normal...

This paper proposes a fully distributed control methodology for secondary control of AC microgrids. The control framework includes three modules: voltage regulator, reactive power regulator, and active power/frequency regulator. The voltage regulator module maintains the average voltage of the microgrid distribution line at the rated value. The reactive power regulator compares the local normal...

in this paper, the static var compensator (svc) has been used to improve dynamic behaviour of power system. to do this, a new objective function is formulated considering power loss reduction, voltage profile improvement and loadability margin decrease. other contribution of this research is proposing a novel structure for particle swarm optimization (pso) algorithm through modifying the initia...

This paper presents a particle swarm optimization (PSO) for reactive power and voltage control (Volt/Var Control: VVC) in electric power systems considering voltage security. VVC can be formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problem (MINLP). The proposed method expands the original PSO to handle a MINLP and determines an on-line VVC strategy with continuous and discrete control va...