Optimal PMU placement with binary PSO

Author

Peppanen, J. ; Alquthami, T. ; Molina, D. ; Harley, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

15-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1475

Lastpage

1482

Abstract

A growing number of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are being installed throughout the power grid. Among other objectives, PMUs can be used in state estimation. Due to the high purchase price of a PMU and its high installation cost, a minimum number of PMUs is desired to make a given power network fully observable. This paper proposes a Particle Swarm Optimization based method to find the optimal PMU locations in a given grid topology. This method was tested successfully with the IEEE 14-bus, 30-bus, and 68-bus systems as well as with a large portion of the Brazilian power system.

Keywords

particle swarm optimisation; phasor measurement; power grids; 30-bus system; 68-bus system; Brazilian power system; IEEE 14-bus system; binary PSO; grid topology; optimal phasor measurement unit placement; particle swarm optimization; state estimation; Atmospheric measurements; Current measurement; Particle measurements; Phasor measurement units; Power systems; Redundancy; Voltage measurement; Phasor measurement unit; binary particle swarm optimization; system observability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Raleigh, NC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0802-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0801-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342640

Filename

6342640