Multi-Objective GWO with Opposition-Based Learning for Optimal Wind Turbine DG Allocation Considering Uncertainty and Seasonal Variability

Abdullah Aljumah and Ahmed Darwish ()
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Abdullah Aljumah: School of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YR, UK
Ahmed Darwish: School of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YR, UK

Sustainability, 2025, vol. 17, issue 19, 1-33

Abstract: Optimally positioning renewable-based distributed generation (DG) units is vital for mitigating technical challenges in active distribution networks (ADNs). With the goal of achieving technical goals such as reduced losses and mitigated unstable voltage, two available optimization methods have been combined for positioning wind-energy DGs: grey wolf optimization (GWO) and opposition-based learning (OBL), which tries out opposite possibilities for each assessed population, thus addressing GWO’s susceptibility to becoming stuck in local optima. This new fusion technique enhances the algorithm’s scrutiny of each area under consideration and reduces the likelihood of premature convergence. Results show that, compared with standard GWO, the proposed OBL-GWO reduced active power losses by up to 95.16%, improved total voltage deviation (TVD) by 99.7%, and increased the minimum bus voltage from 0.907 p.u. to 0.994 p.u. In addition, the voltage stability index (VSI) was also enhanced by nearly 30%. The proposed methodology outperformed both standard GWO on the IEEE 33-bus test system and comparable techniques reported in the literature consistently. By accounting for the uncertainty in wind generation, load demand, and future growth, this framework offers a more reliable and practical planning approach that better reflects real operating conditions.

Keywords: distributed generator (DG) optimization; grey wolf optimizer (GWO); renewable energy integration; power loss minimization; voltage stability improvements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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