Determination of optimal location and capacity of distributed generations based on artificial bee colony

Abstract

This study aims at giving descriptive computation of determining the optimal location and capacity of Distributed Generation (DG) for the compensation of active and reactive power on the electric power system using Artificial Bee Colony and minimizing the power losses. It employed the IEEE 34-Bus Reliability Test System (RTS) as the case study focusing on the determination of the location and capacity of Distributed Generation using Artificial Bee Colony algorithm. The data analysis shows that the placement of DG on the IEEE 34-bus system employing ABC can reduce the real power losses and the real power losses at the optimal location and capacity is minimum.