An improved wild horse optimization algorithm for reliability based optimal DG planning of radial distribution networks

This paper introduces a novel technique for optimal distribution system (DS) planning with distributed generation (DG) systems. It is being done to see how active and reactive power injections affect the system's voltage profile and energy losses. DG penetration in the power systems is one approach that has several advantages such as peak savings, loss lessening, voltage profile amelioration. It also intends to increase system reliability, stability, and security. The main goal of optimal distributed generation (ODG) is a guarantee to achieve the benefits mentioned previously to increase the overall system efficiency. For extremely vast and complicated systems, analytical approaches are not suitable and insufficient. Therefore, several meta-heuristic techniques are favored to obtain better performance from were convergence and accuracy for large systems. In this paper, an Improved Wild Horse Optimization algorithm (IWHO) is proposed as a novel metaheuristic method for solving optimization issues in electrical power systems. IWHO is devised with inspirations from the social life behavior of wild horses. The suggested method is based on the horse's decency. To assess the efficacy of the IWHO, it is implemented on the 23 benchmark functions Reliability amelioration is the most things superb as a result of DGs incorporation. Thus, in this research, a customer-side reliability appraisal in the DS that having a DG unit was carried out by a Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) approach to construct an artificial history for each ingredient across simulation duration. For load flow calculations, the backward Forward Sweep (BFS) technique has been employed as a simulation tool to assess the network performance considering the power handling restrictions. The proposed IWHO method has been measured on IEEE 33 69 and 119 buses to ascertain the network performing in the presence of the optimal DG and the potential benefits of the suggested technique for enhancing the tools used by operators and planners to maintain the system reliability and efficiency. The results proved that IWHO is an optimization method with lofty performance regarding the exploration-exploitation balance and convergence speed, as it successfully handles complicated problems. (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).