Shunt FACTS devices, such as, a Static Var Compensator (SVC), are capable of providing local reactive power compensation. They are widely used in the network to reduce the real power loss and improve the voltage profile. This paper proposes a planning model based on mixed integer conic programming (MICP) to optimally allocate SVCs in the transmission network considering load uncertainty. The load uncertainties are represented by a number of scenarios. Reformulation and linearization techniques are utilized to transform the original non-convex model into a convex second order cone programming (SOCP) model. Numerical case studies based on the IEEE 30-bus system demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed planning model.
@article{arxiv.1703.09854,
title = {Optimal Allocation of Static Var Compensator via Mixed Integer Conic Programming},
author = {Xiaohu Zhang and Di Shi and Zhiwei Wang and Junhui Huang and Xu Wang and Guodong Liu and Kevin Tomsovic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.09854},
year = {2017}
}
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To be published (Accepted) in: Proceedings of the Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Chicago, IL, 2017