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A Study of Reallocation Planning for Section Switches Considering Employment Cost and Intermittent Renewable Energy
Author(s) -
Kurihara Kazunori,
Sasaki Yutaka,
Zoka Yoshifumi,
Yorino Naoto
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
electrical engineering in japan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1520-6416
pISSN - 0424-7760
DOI - 10.1002/eej.22375
Subject(s) - deregulation , reliability (semiconductor) , renewable energy , power (physics) , reliability engineering , photovoltaic system , electric power , energy supply , section (typography) , power market , environmental economics , distribution (mathematics) , industrial organization , business , engineering , electric power system , electrical engineering , energy (signal processing) , computer science , economics , market economy , mathematical analysis , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , advertising
The power market will be in a highly competitive environment because of power deregulation. The electric power companies have raised business efficiency to reduce the number of employees and centralize business establishments. Furthermore, the installation of photovoltaic generation will increase because of energy policy. However, the electric power companies must maintain power supply reliability. Therefore, to reinforce reliability in distribution systems is a significant problem. In this paper, we propose the optimal placement of distribution section switches to maintain power supply reliability in such a situation, and we present simulation results obtained for the original distribution system using a genetic algorithm. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 184(2): 36–43, 2013; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI 10.1002/eej.22375