Wind farm integrated restructured electricity market analysis using Ant Lion optimizer algorithm

ABSTRACT

The optimal market strategy investigation is an enormous task for the system operator in a wind-integrated restructured power system. Bidding makes competition among all the market players in an electricity market and it forces to operate transmission lines near to their thermal limit and as an outcome, congestion may occur in the transmission system. The wind farm can take a vital role in this situation to mitigate transmission congestion by providing some additional powers to the system. To present the imprint of the wind farm in a deregulated power system, the work is formulated in a congested transmission environment considering the maximization of social welfare (SW) as an objective function. A generator shift factor (GSF)-based approach is presented in the work to mitigate the transmission congestion by rescheduling the supplier power. The power transfer distribution factor (PTDF) decides the optimal place of the wind farm (WF) in the system. Ant lion optimizer (ALO) algorithm is used in a modified IEEE 30-bus system to analyze the work. To validate the results obtained from the ALO algorithm, a comparison study is performed in this work with other three meta-heuristic algorithms namely particle swarm optimization (PSO), artificial bee colony (ABC), and moth swarm algorithm (MSA). The comparative results show that the ALO algorithm is much effective than the other three considered algorithms for the presented problem formulations. Four different real-time wind speed data are taken to check the efficiency of the presented approach with considering the intermittent nature of wind speed. It is revealed that the social benefit is raised with increment in wind speed irrespective of optimization techniques.

KEYWORDS:

• Market clearing price
• Generator shift factor
• Power transfer distribution factor
• Ant Lion optimizer algorithm
• Market-clearing volume

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Sadhan Gope

Dr. Sadhan Gope is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mizoram University Aizawl. Before joining Mizoram University, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology Mizoram, from July 2011 to July 2012. He has completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Silchar, India, Master of Technology in Power and Energy System Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India, Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India. He has published a total of more than 35 papers in International Journals and Conference Proceedings. He is an author of “Dynamic Optimal Power Flow with the Presence of Wind Farm” Published by LAMBERT Academic Publishing house. He has received “Best Paper Award” in ACCET 2016 and CIS 2020. He is a regular reviewer of different International (SCI/SCIE/SCOPUS indexed) Journals and various IEEE and Springer hosted/sponsored conferences. He is a lifetime member of Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE) and member of The Institution of Engineers (India), Automatic Control and Dynamical Optimization Society (ACDOS) and International Association of Engineers (IAENG). Dr. Gope was participating in many International conferences as Organizing Chair, Session Chair and member in Technical Program Committee. He is an Editor of ‘Intelligent Techniques and Applications in Science and Technology’ book published by Springer.

Subhojit Dawn

Dr. Subhojit has completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Silchar, India; Master of Technology (M. Tech) in Power and Energy Systems Engineering from National Institute of Technology Silchar, India and Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Electrical Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, India. Dr. Dawn has published more than 30 research papers in reputed International Journals/Conferences in the field of Power System. His current research includes Power System Economics, Renewable Energy Integration, Power System Planning, Congestion Management, Smart Grid, Electricity Market and Energy Management. Dr. Dawn is a member of IEEE. He also serves the IEEE Student Branch, NIT Silchar, India as Chair during 2016-2018. Dr. Dawn is an Associate Editor of Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology (JEET), Springer. He is a continuous reviewer of many reputed International (SCI/SCIE/ESCI) Journals including IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Renewable Energy (Elsevier), Applied Energy (Elsevier) etc. and various IEEE/Springer/Elsevier hosted/sponsored conferences. Dr. Dawn is the Editorial Member of several International Journals including American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, SCIREA Journal of Electrical Engineering, International Journal of Energy Policy and Management etc. He was participating in many International Conferences as Organizing Chair, Session Chair and member in Technical Program Committee. He is an Editor of ‘Intelligent Techniques and Applications in Science and Technology’ book published by Springer.

Shreya Shree Das

Shreya Shree has completed her Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Electrical Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, India. She is presently doing her Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Electrical Engineering from Mizoram University, Aizawl, India. Her current research includes Power System Economics, Renewable Energy Integration, Congestion Management, Smart Grid and Electricity Market. She has published a good number of research papers in reputed International Journals and Conferences in her field of studies. She has also published two books from reputed International publishers.

Hemakumar Reddy Galiveeti

Hemakumar was born in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India, in 1989. He received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the M.Tech. degree in Electrical Power Systems from the Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science, Madanapalle, India in 2010 and 2012 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Silchar, India in 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, MVJ College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India. His current research interests include distribution system reliability, power quality assessment and mitigation, damage assessment, electric vehicles integration, distribution system restoration, and fuzzy applications in power systems. Dr. Reddy is a member of the IEEE PES Society and the IEEE Smart Grid Society. He is also a Frequent Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Industry Application, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Electrical Power Systems Research, and several other international journals.