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Optimal Power Flow With Svc Devices By Using The Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm, Kadi̇r Abaci, Volkan Yamaçli, Ali̇ Akdağli

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper a simple and efficient heuristic search method based on the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is presented and used for the optimal power flow (OPF) problem in power systems with static VAR compensator (SVC) devices. The total generation cost of a power system with SVC devices (which improve the voltage stability at load buses) is optimally minimized with the use of ABC. The ABC, which is based on the foraging behavior of honey bees searching for the best food source, is a recently proposed optimization algorithm. The performance of the presented ABC algorithm was tested and verified …