HSA-Based Optimal Allocation and Sizing of Shunt Compensators Considering Cable Aging Constraint and Load Variations

Abstract

Aging of power system equipments can be caused by erosion of metallic structures such as cable sheathing. Higher system risk due to higher failure probability and possible system damage following the end of-life failure, are the direct consequence of cable aging. One of the solutions to solve this problem is the reduction of the cables current flow using different solutions in the power system network. In this paper, an HSA-Based optimal placement and sizing of shunt compensators is proposed to reduce the current flow. The IEEE RTS 24-Bus network is selected to verify the proposed algorithm with and without considering load variations during a year. The obtained results show the possibility of slowing of the cable aging in the studied network using shunt compensators.