Expansão estática de sistemas de transmissão de energia elétrica via FPA

Abstract

This work presents the application of a bio-inspired algorithm, together with a Heuristic Constructive Algorithm (HCA) in the solution of a power system static transmission expansion planning problem. The algorithm used is a modified version of the Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) that includes a clonal selection operator, from the clonal selection algorithm (CLONALG) that aims to improve the FPA local search process. The modified version proposed is entitled Clonal Flower Pollination Algorithm (CFPA). The CFPA realizes the power system transmission expansion planning, that is, it determines between a set of predefined transmission lines (circuits), which of them must be constructed in order to minimize the power systems investments and operation costs, while meeting the forecast demand in a given planning horizon. In order to increase the efficiency of the search process by the CFPA, information from an HCA has been utilized. That heuristic information has been used in the initialization process of the CFPA and also in the selection of a reduced set of most relevant lines candidates to the expansion plan, thus reducing the search space. To evaluate the results of the proposed methodology, the Garver, IEEE 24 Buses and South Brazilian Systems were simulated. Considering the results it can be verified that both the inclusion of the clonal selection algorithm and the heuristic information were able to increase the efficiency of the FPA in solving this problem.