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The allocation of a variable series reactor considering AC constraints and contingencies

Journal Article · · CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
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  1. Global Energy Interconnection Research Inst. North America (GEIRI), San Jose, CA (United States)
  2. State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Company, Nanjing (China)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  4. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  5. Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (United States)

The Variable Series Reactors (VSRs) can efficiently control the power flow through the adjustment of the line reactance. When they are appropriately allocated in the power network, the transmission congestion and generation cost can be reduced. Our work proposes a planning model to optimally allocate VSRs considering AC constraints and multi-scenarios including base case and contingencies. The planning model is originally a non-convex large scale mixed integer nonlinear program (MINLP), which is generally intractable. The proposed Benders approach decomposes the MINLP model into a mixed integer linear program (MILP) master problem and a number of nonlinear subproblems. Numerical case studies based on IEEE 118-bus demonstrate the high performance of the proposed approach.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1546547
Journal Information:
CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, Journal Name: CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 5; ISSN 2096-0042
Publisher:
Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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