Reliability optimization of an electric power system by biomass fuelled gas engine

This paper applies a new method utilizing Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm and probabilistic load flow to solve this problem. Acceptable solutions are reached in a small number of iterations. Numerical applications are presented and considered regarding the power system IEEE 14-bus and including biomass fuelled gas engines at several nodes. The results obtained show the improvement of the reliability index due to the presence of distributed generation.