ABSTRACT
In recent years, with the increasing pressure on global resources and environment,
and the development of the electric power market process, and the requirements of the
electric power’s quality reliability and economical efficiency are constantly rising, while
in the rapid development process of power system, increasingly large and complex
power grid structure makes the system stability is particularly outstanding. Therefore,
the intelligent power grid with flexible, security, economic and other properties become
the future development direction of power grid, and reactive power optimization is an
important link of intelligent power grid research, therefore, in the course of the
construction of the smart grid, research on reactive power optimization of current
electric power market environment is imperative.
Since China has been adopted the reactive power optimization technology with low
level, although some substation installed the automatic adjustment device, some device
failed to bring into full play in the actual operation with irrational control strategy. Low
switching speed of switch, poor adjust performance, non-ability of cope with high
harmonics, short life of electrical power equipment, and the lower automation level of
reactive power optimization can’t meet the scheduling requirements of reactive power
optimization control in power grid, so in construction planning of intelligent power grid,
reactive power optimization will be processed intelligently.
The reasonable distribution of reactive power is a prerequisite of improving voltage
quality and reducing losses, that will be play an important role in safe and economic
operation of entire power system. Through the reactive power optimization to power
grid can improve the system voltage quality, reduce the operating losses of system, and
improve the security and stability of system, at the same time, it can improve the grid
transmission capacity and equipment utilization of power grid, so that the technical and
economic performance of the whole power system has been effectively improved.
In recent years, the group intelligent optimization algorithm has made a significant
progress in the theory research and engineering application of reactive power
optimization of power system. This paper made a detailed description to basic particle
swarm theory that is one kind of group of intelligent optimization algorithms, and gives
the flow chart of the particle swarm optimization to solve reactive power optimization.
And for the disadvantages such as easy to fall into the local optimal and slow
convergence of particle swarm optimization, and the complexity of the problem itself of
reactive power optimization, this paper is the first to proposed using Cauchy particle
swarm optimization to solve reactive optimization problem of power system, this
algorithm combined basic particle swarm optimization with Cauchy mutation, in order
to increase the swarm’s diversity and avoid algorithm getting into local optimal, and the
Cauchy particle swarm optimization was applied to reactive power optimization of
power system for the first time in this paper.
In this paper, for the features of non-linear, multivariate, multi-constraint of reactive
power optimization problem, a reactive power optimization model with realistic
constraints and reactive power regulation means was founded. The phenomenon of the