Power system distribution planning considering reliability and DG owner's profit

A novel comprehensive approach to solve a distribution systems' planning problem and to determine the optimal size, location, and technology of the distributed generation (DG) units with respect to the reliability of the system is presented in this paper. The objective functions of this optimization problem are power losses, DGs installation and operation costs, the DG owner's and the Distribution Company's profits as economic objectives. In the proposed method, new indices are defined to evaluate the reliability of the system. These indices calculate energy not supplied and volt ampere reactive not supplied due to active and reactive power shortages. Also, the average interruption frequency (AIF) and average interruption duration (AID) have been considered be minimized during optimization problem. The last two (AIF and AID) are modeled by the adequacy transition rate of DGs among states and are combined as a new objective function. To handle several objective functions, an adaptive fuzzy interactive multi-objective optimization method is used. The results on the IEEE 34-bus and 69-bus power distribution system showed the efficiency of proposed indices for reliability assessment of distribution system planning. Published by AIP Publishing.