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Implementing Distributed Optimal Power Flow Using the Alternating Direction Method

  • Chung Koohyung (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Hongik University) ;
  • Kim Balho H. (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Hongik University) ;
  • Song Kyung-Bin (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Soong-sil University)
  • Published : 2005.12.01
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Abstract

The recent requirement for faster and more frequent solutions has encouraged the consideration of parallel implementations using decentralized processors. Distributed multi-processor environments can potentially greatly increase the available computational capacity and decrease the communication burden, allowing for faster Optimal Power Flow (OPF) solutions. This paper presents a mathematical approach to implementing distributed OPF using the alternating direction method (ADM) to parallelize the OPF. Several IEEE Reliability Test Systems were adopted to demonstrate the proposed algorithm.

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