Coordinated allocation and control of voltage regulators based on reactive tabu search

Abstract

This paper present a coordinated allocation and control of Step voltage regulators (SVRs) and Static Var Compensators (SVCs) for voltage deviations in case distributed generations are installed in distribution networks. In the proposed method, the reactive tabu search (RTS) with multiple structures and functions has been applied to the coordination. Firstly, the locations of SVRs are selected optimally and secondly the tap positions of SVRs are optimized by the RTS. Finally, the locations of SVC are decided to brash up the voltage profile in the distribution network. The proposed method enables us to take account of the installation cost of both SVR and SVC as an economic criterion, the upper and lower limit of voltage at each node and also the upper limit of line currents as constraints. By applying the proposed method to a practical distribution test system, it is verified that this method is efficient to allocate SVRs and SVCs at the minimum cost and regulate the system voltages within an appropriate value after introducing distributed generations into the distribution system.