Joint NetWork Reconfiguration and Capacitor Placement by Bactrial Foraging Algorithm

Abstract

Power system engineers are forced to place more emphasis on reducing losses at the distribution level. From an economic perspective, Joint network reconfiguration and capacitor placement is one of the best ways to save energy. Application of heuristic technique is unavoidable, because of expansion of distribution networks and becoming more complex connections in these grids. In view of this, for the first this paper investigates the ability of Bacterial Foraging Algorithm (BFA) for Joint network reconfiguration and capacitor placement.

Keywords

• Bacterial foraging algorithm
• reconfiguration
• distribution systems
• loss reduction
• voltage profile enhancement