Converter placement in the interconnection of railway power grid and public power grid based on cost-reliability approach

The railway load in Switzerland is expected to increase in the next years. Increasing the capacity of the interconnection between the railway power system and the public grid is a reasonable solution to deal with this problem. This paper proposes a way to find the locations and capacities for new interconnections and the capacity expansion for the existing one. To show the effectiveness of the proposed model, the networks in the Suisse Romande region (French part of Switzerland) is considered as a case study.