Impact of Wind Energy Modeled Distributed Generation on Reconfiguration of Unbalanced Radial Distribution System

摘要

The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of wind energy modeled distributed generation on reconfiguration of unbalanced radial distribution system for voltage profile improvement and power loss minimization. By installing Distributed Generators (DG), reliability and voltage profile of unbalanced radial power distribution system can be improved with reduction of power losses. Unbalanced radial power distribution systems usually cause low power quality, low voltage profile, more investment and high operating costs. Feeder reconfiguration is a good technique to balance these systems to improve voltage profile and to reduce the power losses. In this paper a 0-1 integer programming optimization method for reconfiguration of unbalanced radial distribution system with wind energy modeled distributed generation, for improvement of voltage profile and power loss minimization is proposed. The results obtained with the proposed methodology for a practical system demonstrates its applicability.