Renewable energy is crucial for reducing emissions and meeting future demands. However, due to concerns regarding intermittent supply, integrating RE into a multi-microgrid system might pose various power problems, instance, unstable electrical output. As result, increased load reactive demands result in voltage losses during peak demand. Therefore, it can be minimized by utilizing Flexible Alt...

Optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD) intended for reducing the real losses of transmission scheme remains one supreme concerns research community to explore competence schemes. Numerous systems have been deliberate increase performance optimization method in tunning operational variables as well explored through estimating final results. The offering a novel approach based on entropy evolutio...

Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter is a promising topology and provides alternative way for converters that are used in grid connected photovoltaic, wind power generation and in motor drive. Output power can be expanded simply with modularity and control. Though it has wide application area and tremendous merits, it has greater disadvantage that it uses separate DC supply for each HBridge. C...

Network reconfiguration is an effective approach to reduce the power losses in distribution system. Recent studies have shown that the reconfiguration problem considering load profiles can give a significant improvement on the distribution network performance. This work proposes a novel method to determine the optimal daily configuration based on variable photovoltaic (PV) generation output and...

This paper presents a new hybrid particle swarm optimization (HPSO) method for solving multi-objective real power optimization problem. The objectives of the optimization problem are to minimize the losses and to maximize the voltage stability margin. The proposed method expands the original GA and PSO to tackle the mixed –integer nonlinear optimization problem and achieves the voltage stabilit...

Evaluation of the reliability parameters in micro-grids based on renewable energy sources is one of the main problems that are investigated in this paper. Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy, battery as an energy storage system and fuel cell as a backup system are used to provide power to the electrical loads of the micro-grid. Loads in the micro-grid consist of interruptible...

Recently integrating Embedded Generation units (EGs) in the distribution network gain popularity due to their overall positive impacts on the system they serve. Minimizing the system real power losses and improving the voltage profile of the system are just to name a few. However, suboptimal EG penetration and location might increase the system losses. This paper investigates the EG rating by f...

In recent years, the number of wind farms consisting type 3 and 4 turbines located within distribution system has been growing rapidly. Wind can be utilized as a continuous reactive power source to support voltage by taking advantage their control capability. This paper aims further develop assignment strategy in order minimize losses described published paper. We introduce method reconfigurati...