Coordinated Voltage Control in Distribution Network with the Presence of DGs and Variable Loads Using Pareto and Fuzzy Logic

José Raúl Castro, Maarouf Saad, Serge Lefebvre, Dalal Asber and Laurent Lenoir
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José Raúl Castro: Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación y Electrónica, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja 11-01-608, Ecuador
Maarouf Saad: Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole de technologie supérieure, 1100, Notre–Dame Ouest, Montréal, QC H3C 1K3, Canada
Serge Lefebvre: Hydro-Québec’s research institute (IREQ), 1800, boul. Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, QC J3X 1S3, Canada
Dalal Asber: Hydro-Québec’s research institute (IREQ), 1800, boul. Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, QC J3X 1S3, Canada
Laurent Lenoir: Hydro-Québec’s research institute (IREQ), 1800, boul. Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, QC J3X 1S3, Canada

Energies, 2016, vol. 9, issue 2, 1-16

Abstract: This paper presents an efficient algorithm to solve the multi-objective (MO) voltage control problem in distribution networks. The proposed algorithm minimizes the following three objectives: voltage variation on pilot buses, reactive power production ratio deviation, and generator voltage deviation. This work leverages two optimization techniques: fuzzy logic to find the optimum value of the reactive power of the distributed generation (DG) and Pareto optimization to find the optimal value of the pilot bus voltage so that this produces lower losses under the constraints that the voltage remains within established limits. Variable loads and DGs are taken into account in this paper. The algorithm is tested on an IEEE 13-node test feeder and the results show the effectiveness of the proposed model.

Keywords: coordinated voltage control; distributed generation; on load tap changer; multi-objective voltage control; fuzzy logic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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