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Optimal Placement and Sizing of PV Sources in Distribution Grids Using a Modified Gradient-Based Metaheuristic Optimizer

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  • Oscar Danilo Montoya

    (Grupo de Compatibilidad e Interferencia Electromagnética, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá 110231, Colombia
    Laboratorio Inteligente de Energía, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Cartagena 131001, Colombia)

  • Luis Fernando Grisales-Noreña

    (Facultad de Ingeniería, Campus Robledo, Institución Universitaria Pascual Bravo, Medellín 050036, Colombia)

  • Diego Armando Giral-Ramírez

    (Facultad Tecnológica, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá 110231, Colombia)

Abstract

The problem of the optimal placement and sizing of renewable generation sources based on photovoltaic (PV) technology in electrical distribution grids operated in medium-voltage levels was studied in this research. This optimization problem is from the mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model family. Solving this model was achieved by implementing a master–slave optimization approach, where the master–slave corresponded to the application of the modified gradient-based metaheuristic optimizer (MGbMO) and the slave stage corresponded to the application of the successive approximation power flow method. In the master stage, the problem of the optimal placement and sizing of the PV sources was solved using a discrete–continuous codification, while the slave stage was used to calculate the objective function value regarding the energy purchasing costs in terminals of the substation, as well as to verify that the voltage profiles and the power generations were within their allowed bounds. The numerical results of the proposed MGbMO in the IEEE 34-bus system demonstrated its efficiency when compared with different metaheuristic optimizers such as the Chu and Beasley genetic algorithm, the Newton metaheuristic algorithm, the original gradient-based metaheuristic optimizer, and the exact solution of the MINLP model using the general algebraic modeling system. In addition, the possibility of including meshed distribution topologies was tested with excellent numerical results.

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  • Oscar Danilo Montoya & Luis Fernando Grisales-Noreña & Diego Armando Giral-Ramírez, 2022. "Optimal Placement and Sizing of PV Sources in Distribution Grids Using a Modified Gradient-Based Metaheuristic Optimizer," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-19, March.
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