18 Optimization Methods Application To Optimal Power Flow in Electric Power Systems
18 Optimization Methods Application To Optimal Power Flow in Electric Power Systems
18.1 Introduction
As power industry is moving to a competitive market, its operation is strongly
inuenced. In the deregulated environment, the security and economical is-
sues of power systems are coordinated tightly than before. Thus, the need
for fast and robust optimization tools that consider both security and econ-
omy is more demanding than before to support the system operation and
control [34]. Optimization methods have been widely used in power system
operation, analysis and planning. One of the most signicant applications is
optimal power ow (OPF). Since its introduction by Carpentier in the 1962
as a network constrained economic dispatch problem [12], OPF has been
studied and widely used in power system operation and planning, due to its
capability of integrating the economic and security aspects of a power system
into one mathematical formulation.
The OPF issue is one of the most important problems faced by dispatch-
ing engineers to handle large-scale power systems in an eective and ecient
manner. It is a particular mathematical approach of the global power system
optimization problem that aims at determining the least control movements to
keep power system at the most desired state [23]. The OPF provides a useful
support to the operator to overcome many diculties in the planning, opera-
tion and control of power systems. Thus, it represents a exible and powerful
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