Title of article :
A less-eort method for spatial network planning
Author/Authors :
Habibi, M.R Department of Electrical Engineering - Kerman Graduate University of Technology - Kerman, Iran , Rashidinejad, M Department of Electrical Engineering - Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman - Kerman, Iran , Hajebrahimi, A Department of Electrical Engineering - Kerman Graduate University of Technology - Kerman, Iran , Abdollahi, A Department of Electrical Engineering - Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman - Kerman, Iran
Abstract :
This paper presents a method to solve Spatial Network Planning (SNP) in
power systems expansion. SNP is an integration of Transmission Expansion Planning
(TEP) and optimal line routing problems. In fact, SNP considers the impacts of lines
routing on the network power
ow. Therefore, it can exploit such impacts to attain a
signicant techno-economic solution. In this work, a preprocessing stage is employed to
reduce the computational eort demanded by line routing. Furthermore, a meta-heuristic
algorithm is engaged to solve such a complicated problem. Applying these modications
made it possible to solve SNP for large-scale systems with high-resolution rasterized maps.
The proposed method is applied to a 3-bus system, an 18-bus test system as well as the
original and modied versions of the IRAN southeast high-voltage transmission network to
demonstrate the capability of the proposed methodology.
Keywords :
Geographical Information System (GIS) , Spatial network planning , Transmission expansion planning , Transmission line routing
Journal title :
Scientia Iranica(Transactions D: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering)
