Applied MATPOWER for Power System Optimization Research

This paper provides the applied MATPOWER techniques for optimization solving in power system research. MATPOWER has been powerful developed for power flow and optimal power flow solving. These two mains of MATPOWER are importance for electrical energy management in terms of loss reduction in power systems and system performance improvement. In power flow solving of MATPOWER process can be applied for conveniently solving in heuristic optimizations. Example of optimal capacitor placement is illustrated for practical guiding.