DETERMINING LOCATION FOR POWER SYSTEM EXPANSION PLANNING USING MIN CUT ALGORITHM

Abstract

The electricity market has created a large amount social welfare, nevertheless that seems cause to increate the congestion on the electricity system more and more frequent. To solve the problem, one of the necessary base solutions is power system expansion planning. Although power system expansion planning has been studied, but incorporating expansion planning methods still is a challenge. Thus, it would be difficult to find out exactly places where the electricity network will be expanded for optimizing, saving on investment funds. This paper shows the method to locate the bottleneck of the transmission network by the Min-cut algorithm, thus orientatting the plans. The Garver test system, IEEE 6-bus system, are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.