Verification of Dependability on Parallel Differential Evolution Based Voltage and Reactive Power Control

This paper evaluates dependability on parallel differential evolution (DE) based voltage and reactive power control (Volt/Var Control: VVC) Considering large penetration of renewable energies and deregulated environment of power systems VVC requires fast computation even for larger-scale problems One solutions to increase the computation speed is to use parallel and distributed computing. Since power system is one of the infrastructures of social community, not only fast computation, but also sustainable control (dependability) is strongly required for VVC. The simulation results with IEEE 14, 30, 57, and 118 bus systems indicate that parallel DE is superior to parallel Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) especially for dependability on VVC.