AN APPLICATION OF A COMBINATORIAL HYBRID HEURISTIC ALGORITHM TO TRANSMISSION EXPANSION PLANNING

Transmission Expansion Planning (TEP) is a non-convex optimization problem that can be solved via different heuristic algorithms. Varieties of classical as well as heuristic algorithms in literature are addressed to solve TEP problem. In this paper, a Constructive Heuristic Algorithm (CHA) is used for solving TEP problem. The basic idea comes from Garver’s work applied to the transportation model. In this algorithm, CHA is applied to a linear model as hybrid model. This algorithm proposed by ‘Villasana Garver Salon’ (VGS) to the transmission system long-term planning. Simulation studies and tests results on the well-known transmission network such as: Garver and IEEE 24-bus 46-bus Sothern Brazilian and Southeast Network of Iran, systems are carried out to show the significant performance as well as the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.