GENETIC ALGORITHM BASED STUDYING OF BUNDLE LINES EFFECT ON NETWORK LOSSES IN TRANSMISSION NETWORK EXPANSION PLANNING

Hossein Shayeghi – Meisam Mahdavi

   Transmission network expansion planning (TNEP) is a basic part of power system planning that its task is to minimize the network construction and operational cost, while meeting imposed technical, economic and reliability constraints. Recently, many methods have been introduced for solution of the static transmission network expansion planning (STNEP) problem. However, in whole of them, the effect of bundle lines on network losses has not been investigated. For this reason, in this paper, STNEP problem is being solved considering the effect of bundle lines on the network losses in a transmission network with different voltage levels using decimal codification genetic algorithm (DCGA). Finally, the effectiveness of proposed idea is tested on an actual transmission network of the Azerbaijan regional electric company, Iran. The results analysis reveals that bundle lines have important effect on the network losses in STNEP problem. Moreover, considering the bundle lines in a power system with various line voltage levels are caused the operational costs is decreased in addition to reduce of the total expansion costs. Thus, the effect of bundle lines on the network losses is caused the total expansion costs (expansion cost of lines and substations) are calculated more exactly and therefore the transmission expansion planning is optimized.

Keywords: STNEP, bundle lines, network losses, investment return, genetic algorithm

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