Artificial intelligence technique based reactive power planning using FVSI

Abstract

This paper proposes an application of Fast Voltage Stability Index (FVSI) to Reactive Power Planning (RPP) using Artificial Intelligence Technique based Differential Evolution (DE). FVSI is used to identify the weak buses for the Reactive Power Planning problem which involves process of experimental by voltage stability analysis based on the load variation. The point at which Fast Voltage Stability Index close to unity indicates the maximum possible connected load and the bus with minimum connected load is identified as the weakest bus at the point of bifurcation. The proposed approach has been used in the IEEE 30-bus system. Results show considerable reduction in system losses and improvement of voltage stability with the use of Fast Voltage Stability Index for the Reactive Power Planning problem.