Multi-objective transmission expansion planning considering minimization of curtailed wind energy

This paper proposes a new multi-objective transmission expansion planning (TEP) in order to find optimum location of lines/transformers by considering intermittent nature of wind power and variable load structure. To reveal the benefit of wind power in the context of TEP, curtailed wind energy is considered as one of the objective functions besides the sum of the investment costs and penalty for energy not supplied (ENS). By this way, a trade-off between investment cost and curtailed wind energy is established using fuzzy satisfying approach while maintaining the adequacy of power system. The multi-objective nature of the proposed method is handled by using the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II combined with the DC-optimal power flow which is performed several times to obtain curtailed wind energy and ENS. The nature of load and wind power is incorporated into the methodology by using agglomerative hierarchical clustering to reduce computational effort. The proposed methodology is illustrated on the different configurations of modified IEEE-RTS 24 bus test system. Numerical case studies indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method for reduction of total investment cost in TEP of power systems with wind power integration. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.