Fuzzy bee colony approach to mitigate congestion problems through TCSC installation for voltage corrective strategy

Application of the viable technologies in the new millennium has discovered successfulness in reducing undesirable problems related to power system operation. The advent of computational intelligence methods are mostly assisting to achieve high efficiency for controlling the changing of sophisticated process flow in industrials. Congestion problem in power system is a crucial issue as it leads to the smoothness of power delivery to the consumer. One of the techniques to alleviate this problem is the installation of Flexible Alternating Current Thyristor into the existing power system network. This paper presents fuzzy bee colony approach to mitigate congestion problems through TCSC installation for voltage control strategy. The bee colony optimization technique (BCO) is used for searching the optimal sizing for TCSC. Validation was conducted using the IEEE 26 Bus Reliable Test System (RTS), particle swarm optimization is used for verification purposes.