Optimized power operational strategies through DISGEN in a railway rake up keeping depot

Incorporation of renewable energy resources in Distributed Generation (DISGEN) is a noble idea now-a-days. Here, an analysis of DISGEN applicability with nonconventional/renewable type distributed energy resources (DISTERs) has been made. Optimized operational strategies along with optimalized installable DISTERs capacities have been determined for having the minimum energy price through a comparative economical study. Schematic of protection corresponding to the power network of Sonarpur TRS/EMU railways car-shed, Eastern Railways, India through single line diagram (SLD) has also been proposed. A novel optimizing technique namely, Group search optimization (GRSO) has been used for solving this optimizing task incorporating constraints in MATLAB.