Optimal DG Placement in Distribution systems Using Cost/Worth Analysis

DG application has received increasing attention during recent years. The impact of DG on various aspects of distribution system operation, such as reliability and energy loss, depend highly on DG location in distribution feeder. Optimal DG placement is an important subject which has not been fully discussed yet. This paper presents an optimization method to determine optimal DG placement, based on a cost/worth analysis approach. This method considers technical and economical factors such as energy loss, load point reliability indices and DG costs, and particularly, portability of DG. The proposed method is applied to a test system and the impacts of different parameters such as load growth rate and load forecast uncertainty (LFU) on optimum DG location are studied.

Authors:

• M Ahmadigorji
• A. Abbaspour
• A Rajabi-Ghahnavieh
• M. Fotuhi- Firuzabad

Keywords:

• Distributed generation
• optimal placement
• cost/worthanalysis
• customer interruption cost
• Dynamic programming

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