Metaheuristic Techniques Applied to the Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch: a Review

摘要: The optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD) is a complex optimization problem involving discrete and continuous variables. main objective of the ORPD consists on adjusting generator voltage set points, transformer taps compensations for reducing losses, improving profile or given stability index. Due to no linear, non convex multi-modal nature most techniques applied its solution are based metaheuristic optimization. This paper presents literature review different approaches ORPD. focused journal papers published in IEEEexplore ScienceDirect last 15 years. It was found that classical such as genetic algorithms their variations have been frequently used solve However, new gray wolf optimizer, shuffled frog leaping algorithm gravitational search recently adapted approach