IEEE Access (Jan 2024)
Optimal Power Flow Analysis With Renewable Energy Resource Uncertainty Using Dwarf Mongoose Optimizer: Case of ADRAR Isolated Electrical Network
Abstract
Over the last twin decades, significant advancements have occurred in global electricity grids due to the widespread adoption of renewable energy resources (RES). While these sources play an essential role in total generation cost reduction, transmission power loss minimization, and reduction of environmental hazards related to traditional power plants. Still, however, the optimal planning and operation of the power system in the presence RES is considered a primary challenge due to the their stochastic natural and intermittency. One of the most complex and motivating issues in a power system is optimal power flow (OPF), a constrained optimization problem characterized by non-linearity and non-convexity. From these specifications, researchers competed in the past decades to find optimal solutions to stochastic OPF problems while keeping system stability. To tackle this challenge, an effective optimization algorithm which mimics on the foraging behavior of dwarf mongooses’ in the nature is introduced. The objective function considers reserve cost for overestimation and penalty cost for underestimation of intermittent renewable sources. To show the robustness and efficacy of the recommended optimizer, case studies on the customized IEEE 30-bus system and a realistic power system DZA 26-bus (isolated grid) are undertaken. Numerical findings show that the proposed DMOA beats all previous published-results and performs better over a variety of objective functions while finding high-quality optimally viable solutions. The obtained results demonstrate that the DMOA realized exceptional performance for both the test networks, with total generation cost minimized values of 780.982 ${\$}$ /h and 8283.942 US ${\$}$ /h, respectively. These results highlight the precision and robustness of DMOA in effectively addressing various instances of the OPF problem Furthermore, the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test, a statistical approach, was employed to evaluate the superiority of the proposed algorithm and to highlight a certain level of confidence to our study.
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