A Novel Salp Swarm Algorithm for Expansion Planning with Security Constraints

Abstract

Transmission expansion planning (TEP) is one of the critical issues of the deregulated electricity market. In view of this, a salp swarm algorithm (SSA) is being considered in the present work for the solution of TEP problem with the added security constraint. The features of SSA algorithm are its foraging behavior of salps swarming in the oceans. Under the TEP problem, the work considered here is to determine the cost-effective expansion planning in the deregulated electricity market. For this act, some of the important constraints such as power flow of the lines, right-of-way’s validity and maximum line addition are taken into consideration. The studied power system networks are IEEE 25-bus system, Brazilian 46-bus system and Columbian 93-bus system for the study of TEP problem. The results are compared to those offered by some other state-of-the-art algorithms. It showed that SSA is effective algorithm for the TEP problem.