Abstract
The capacitors are generally used to provide the compensation of reactive power in the electric distribution systems. This paper investigates a particular approach that highlights the influences which the connection of shunt capacitors may have over the solutions for voltage control in the medium voltage distribution networks. The problem of optimal capacitor allocation for minimization of bus voltage deviation index was solved by using the Bat algorithm in order to find the near-optimal solutions for the capacitor allocation problem in electric distribution systems. To demonstrate the feasibility of algorithm, a real distribution network was used and the results were compared with those obtained using genetic algorithm.
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