An Operational Approach to Multi-Objective Optimization for Volt-VAr Control

David Raz and Yuval Beck
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David Raz: HIT—Holon Institute of Technology, Holon 5810201, Israel
Yuval Beck: School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 22, 1-14

Abstract: Recent research has enabled the integration of traditional Volt-VAr Control (VVC) resources, such as capacitor banks and transformer tap changers, with Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), such as photo-voltaic sources and energy storage, in order to achieve various Volt-VAr Optimization (VVO) targets, such as Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR), minimizing VAr flow at the transformer, minimizing grid losses, minimizing asset operations and more. When more than one target function can be optimized, the question of multi-objective optimization is raised. In this work, a general formulation of the multi-objective Volt-VAr Optimization problem is proposed. The applicability of various multi-optimization techniques is considered and the operational interpretation of these solutions is discussed. The methods are demonstrated using a simulation on a test feeder.

Keywords: Volt-VAr Control; Volt-VAr Optimization; multi-objective optimization (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: 2020
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