Optimal Placement of Wind Turbines Based on Vector Evaluated Particle Swarm Optimization and Fuzzy Mechanism

penetrating is formulated into a power system in this paper. Small scale wind turbines can be used in domestic, community and smaller wind energy projects and these can be either stand-alone or grid-connected systems. With grid-connected turbines, the output from the wind turbine is directly connected to the existing mains electricity supply. The Vector Evaluated Particle Swarm Optimization (VEPSO) with fuzzy mechanism is applied to power system for finding optimal place of wind turbines considering the fuel cost and emission of thermal unites by changing location and varying sizes of wind farm, simultaneously. The proposed method technique is tested over a 30-bus 6-generator IEEE power system considering the problem objective finctions in two states of without wind farm and with wind farm. The achieved results demostrate good effects of existing wind farm connected to power system.

Keywords:

Fuzzy mechanism , VEPSO , Power System , Wind Farms , Optimal Placement