OPTIMIZATION OF LONG RURAL FEEDERS USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM
Michael T. Wishart, Gerard F. Ledwich, Grujica Ivanovich, Arindam Ghosh, Nader Nassif Barsoum, Gerhard‐Wilhelm Weber, Pandian Vasant · AIP conference proceedings · 2010
This paper describes the optimization of conductor size and the voltage regulator location & magnitude of long rural distribution lines.The optimization minimizes the lifetime cost of the lines, including capital costs and losses while observing voltage drop and operational constraints using a Genetic Algorithm (GA).The GA optimization is applied to a real Single Wire Earth Return (SWER) network in regional Queensland and results are presented.