Comparative Analysis of Constructive Heuristic Algorithms for Transmission Expansion Planning

Transmission Expansion Planning (TEP) is a complex optimization problem that has the purpose of determining how the transmission capacity of a network should be enlarged, satisfying the increasing demand. This problem has combinatorial nature and different alternative plans can be designed so that m...

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Published inU.Porto Journal of Engineering Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. 55 - 64
Main Authors Gomes, Phillipe Vilaça, Saraiva, João Tomé
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Universidade do Porto 20.03.2018
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Cost Analysis
Electrical Engineering
Energy Transport
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Summary:Transmission Expansion Planning (TEP) is a complex optimization problem that has the purpose of determining how the transmission capacity of a network should be enlarged, satisfying the increasing demand. This problem has combinatorial nature and different alternative plans can be designed so that many algorithms can converge towards local optima. This feature drives the development of tools that combine high robustness and low computational effort. This paper presents a comparative analysis and a detailed review of the main Constructive Heuristic Algorithms (CHA) used in the TEP problem. This kind of tools combine low computational effort with reasonable quality solutions and can be associated with other tools to use in a subsequent step in order to improve the final solution. CHAs proved to be very effective and showed good performance as the test results will illustrate.
ISSN:2183-6493
2183-6493
DOI:10.24840/2183-6493_002.002_0006