A Tabu Search Multiobjective Approach to Capacitor Allocation in Radial Distribution System.pdfVIP

MIC’2001 - 4th Metaheuristics International Conference 169 A Tabu Search Multiobjective Approach to Capacitor Allocation in Radial Distribution Systems ∗ † † Dulce F. Pires C. Henggeler Antunes A. Gomes Martins ∗ Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Set´ubal Campus do IPS, 2914-508 Set´ubal, Portugal Email: dcosta@est.ips.pt † Departamento de Engenharia Electrot´ecnica Polo II da Universidade de Coimbra, 3000 Coimbra, Portugal Email: {ch, amartins}@dee.uc.pt 1 Introduction The installation of shunt capacitors in primary distribution electrical networks can effectively reduce energy and peak power losses, while improving voltage profile. Economic and operational benefits depend mainly on the number, locations and sizes of the capacitors installed. Several approaches devoted to this problem have been reported in the literature. However, most of them adopt some unrealistic assumptions (such as uniform load distribution, uniform feeder size and constant loads), suffer from lack of generality, or are computationally too demanding when applied to distribution systems of realistic sizes. Initially the problem of capacitor allocation has been handled with analytical methods [1]-[2]. However, more recently other methodologies have proposed: mixed integer programming [3]-[4], linear program- ming models [5] and methods based on heuristic search techniques: Genetic Algorithms [6], Simulated Annealing [7]-[8], Tabu Search [9]-[10]-[11], etc. Heuristic rul