A Novel Technique for Evaluating Optimal Power Flow and SVC Performance using the ABC Algorithm

Abstract

Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) method is explored in this paper to solve optimum power flow (OPF) problems in power systems by using a static VAR compensator (SVC). With the usage of ABC the system can reduces the overall generating cost of a power system by employing SVC devices; in addition to that it also maintains Voltage stability. The ABC is developed which is influenced by honey bees' browsing behavior in the discovery of the appropriate nectars. It is a newly developed optimization algorithm in power systems. The suggested ABC method was compared to existing optimization algorithms on IEEE 11-bus & IEEE 30-bus systems to examine how effectively it functioned. Result shows that to handle nonlinear problems in power systems, ABC can be strongly accepted it is widely used in power systems.