In modern deregulated power industry, private sector has invested a lot to supply for extended power demand using the preexisting power system framework. This resulted into increased loading of transmission lines which has to work now to hit their thermal limits. The overloading of transmission line resulted in congestion and hence increase in loss of power in the system. One of the efficient ways to reduce congestion is by enhancing the available transfer capacity (ATC) of the power system. ATC enhancement can be achieved by application of FACTS devices. This paper presents an innovative method to mitigate congestion by locating TCSC in the IEEE 30 bus system. The allocation of TCSC is done by using ACPTDF sensitivity factors while the parameter setting is done by applying Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) method. The effective application of GWO is demonstrated in this paper to reduce active power loss, enhancement of ATC value with reduction of reactive power loss and to optimize TCSC size through a multi objective function. The suitability of algorithm is established through concerned figures and tables.
In a deregulated power system as the power demand is increasing rapidly, with a limited power system framework, it is very difficult to transmit bulk power. This limitation is due to the thermal constraints of the transmission line. There is a need to increase the loadability of the line without hitting the thermal limits of the system. Thyristor Controlled Series Compensator (TCSC) is used in this paper to reduce congestion in the system by reducing losses and increasing the loadability of the lines. The sensitivity factor applied to optimally allocate TCSC is Disparity Line Utilization Factor (DLUF) and parameter setting is optimized using Grey Wolf Optimisation (GWO). The lines are sorted in terms of the degree of congestion with the help of LUF and then optimal location of TCSC is obtained using DLUF to minimize congestion. TCSC parameters are optimally calculated by the multivariable objective function applying GWO. The method is validated on IEEE 30 bus system. The congestion is reduced and the loadability of a line is increased by the algorithm used in this paper. Effects of congestion alleviation by proposed method are suitably demonstrated in this paper for reduced real and reactive power loss, reduced voltage deviation and incremented security margin of the test system. Results obtained by the proposed algorithm is establishing an upper hand over other state of art algorithms in terms of solution of problem formulated for congestion alleviation.
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