Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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705260 | Electric Power Systems Research | 2013 | 9 Pages |
The availability of intelligence at substation level, combined with the adoption of pervasive communication networks, offers technologies and opportunities to decentralize voltage regulation in active power distribution systems.Armed with such a vision, this paper proposes the employment of meta-heuristic optimizer agents aimed at addressing voltage regulation in a distributed scenario. In particular, it is demonstrated that the cost functions describing the voltage regulation objectives can be obtained by solving distributed consensus problems over a network of cooperative and dynamic agents. In addition, all the basic operations required to solve the voltage regulation problem can be computed by the distributed meta-heuristic optimizer agents according to a totally decentralized/non-hierarchical paradigm.Definitively, in a very simple way, based on the global grid conditions each voltage controller may decide if and when a reactive power flow injection into the network is most useful.
► This paper proposes the employment of meta-heuristic optimizer agents. ► We aim at addressing voltage regulation in a distributed scenario. ► We propose a decentralized voltage regulation architecture based on dynamic agents. ► We demonstrate that cost functions can be computed by solving consensus problems. ► The studies show that this framework effectively address the voltage regulation problem.