Clustering based Voltage Control Areas for Localized Reactive Power Management in Deregulated Power System

In this paper, a new K-means clustering based approach for identification of voltage control areas is developed. Voltage control areas are important for efficient reactive power management in power systems operating under deregulated environment. Although, voltage control areas are formed using conventional hierarchical clustering based method, but the present paper investigate the capability of K-means clustering for the purpose of forming voltage control areas. The proposed method is tested and compared for IEEE 14 bus and IEEE 30 bus systems. The results show that this K-means based method is competing with conventional hierarchical approach

Authors:

• Saran Satsangi
• Ashish Saini
• Amit Saraswat

Keywords:

• Voltage control areas
• reactive power management
• K-means clustering algorithm

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