IRJET- Maximization of Net Profit by Optimal Placement and Sizing of DG in Distribution System

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Maximization of Net Profit by optimal placement and Sizing of DG
in Distribution System
K. Mareesan1, Dr. A. Shunmugalatha2
1Lecturer(Sr.Grade)/EEE, VSVN Polytechnic College, Virudhunagar, Tamilnadu, India.
2Professor&Head/EEE, Velammal College of Engineering & Technology, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India.
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Abstract - The economy of the Distribution system (DS)
greatly depends upon the amount of electricity purchase
from transmission grid and the line loss of the distribution
system. The inclusion of Distributed Generation (DG) in the
passive distribution system acts as an active power supply
to the local load thereby reduces the line loss and also
reduces the amount of electricity purchase from the
transmission grid. Reduced purchase of electricity from the
grid helps to increase net savings of the DS and also
increases the load utilization level of the power system
network. Considering the above theme, in this paper
maximization of economic benefit in terms of improving the
net savings or net profit of the vertically integrated
distribution system has been proposed. The maximum
economic benefit optimization is carried through the
stochastic optimization tools such as Genetic Algorithm
(GA) and Particle Swarm optimization (PSO). The
effectiveness of the proposed optimization has been tested
with the standard 9 Bus distribution system. To attain the
realistic results time varying load scenario has been
incorporated and the results are recorded.
Key Words: Economic Benefit, Vertically Integrated
Distributed system, PSO, GA.
1. INTRODUCTION
In recent years due to the advancement of technology,
the utilization of electricity has been increased a lot and
leads to the shortage of transmission capacity to meet the
load variation in the distribution system. The shortage
issue is effectively carried by the inclusion of DG in the
distribution system [1]. DG helps to convert a passive DS
to the active DS. The active DS helps to reduces the
transmission loss and also provide reliable electricity to
the consumer. Implementation of DG is highly affected by
the DG’s size and placement. Improper placement and
sizing of DG will adversely affect the system’s static
security constraints such as voltage profile, line flow in the
transmission line. Hence it is necessary to optimize the
placement and sizing of DG [2]. The optimization problem
can be interpreted as a mixed integer non-linear
optimization problem. Optimization procedures such as
analytical, deterministic and stochastic methods are used
to find the optimal position and sizing of DGs for
maximizing the system voltages or minimizing power loss.
Initially in late 1990’s and early 2000, many literatures [3-
4] have used analytical based optimization approach for
finding the best position and sizing of DGs to solve
different DG-unit problems.In early 2000,
Evolutionary/meta-heuristic computing techniques like
Genetic Algorithm (GA) [5-6] and Particle Swarm
Optimization (PSO) [7] have emerged as a very powerful
general purpose solution tools for solving the complex
Power system problems. Basically these Meta-heuristics
search techniques are capable of finding the optimum
solution of a problem irrespective of the number of control
variables and also effective in handling the mixture of
continuous and discrete variables. Due to the
development in the practice of stochastic algorithms,
Differential Evolution [7], Ant Colony optimization (ACO)
[8], Fuzzy systems [9], Plant growth simulation [10],
Immune algorithm based optimization (IA) [11] and Bee
Colony optimization algorithm (BCO) [12] as a tools for
solving optimal DG allocation problem. Recent year’s
revolutionary hybrid process of combining the advantages
of two meta-heuristic algorithms in determining the
optimal solution has been practised more in many
applications. In literature [13], the above revolutionary
way of combining GA and PSO has been used in
determining the optimal placement of DG.
In recent years, few papers [14-16] have proposed to
consider the economic objective of maximizing the profit
of the distribution system along with technical objective of
minimizing the line power loss and maximizing the voltage
profile. The above economic based objective paper
increases the net savings or net profit of the distribution
companies in the deregulated electricity system by
optimally placing and allocating the size of the DG. Based
on the above methodology of maximizing the net profit or
net savings of the distribution companies, in this paper
maximization of the economic benefit for the vertically
integrated distribution system has been proposed by
reducing the purchase of electricity from the transmission
grid (TG). The reduction of electricity is compensated by
the inclusion of DG. Though the inclusion of DG helps in
reducing the technical issues such as line losses and
voltage profile reduction, the economic factor of DG such
as operational and maintenance cost has been the
difficulty to achieve the maximizing economic benefit
results. Hence it is necessary to optimize the DG placement
and sizing by considering the electricity purchase cost
from the transmission grid and also considering the DG
maintenance and operation cost. GA and PSO algorithms
have been used as an optimization tools for solving the
optimization problem. To check the consistency of
optimization problem, 9 bus radial distribution test

system has been used for implementation. The
performances of both GA and PSO are highlighted by
comparing the results.
2. MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION
The inclusion of DG directly supplies electric
power to the local load thereby reducing the purchase of
electricity from the transmission grid and also reduces the
total loss in the distribution system. The reduced
purchase of electricity from the transmission grid
improvises the net savings of the distribution system but
the size of DG has a great deal with the investment and
operation cost of DG and also with the raw materials for
the operation of DG. Hence it is important to model the
electricity purchase cost from the transmission grid, DG’s
Investment and operation cost to achieve the objective of
maximizing the economic benefit of the distribution
system [14]. Also the load pattern plays a vital role in
designing the DG participation in the distribution system.
The above mentioned costs model and the load level
pattern are described in the below sections as follows.
2.1 Multi-load Level
Load is the most uncertain unit in the power system; it
will be varied continuously with respect to the demand.
Based on the statistical data, the load pattern will clearly
depicts the load demand per hour/day/year in the
Distribution system. Hence it is important to analyze the
load pattern to get the accurate load data for designing the
DG participation. In this paper, the load pattern of a day
has been segregated into three load levels such as light
load, medium load and Peak load. The load demand of
each load level will be a certain percentage of active and
reactive power from the nominal load. Based on a day load
pattern interval, the annual load pattern has been
designed. This annual load level interval helps to design
the DG participation share for each load level in the
distribution system and also the optimal DG sizing for each
load level can be achieved accurately.
2.2 Electricity Purchase Cost
In a distribution system, the total load demand and
the power losses are supplied from the transmission grid.
This is given as below
= +
Where
in kW
If a portion of Total real power demand is supplied by DG
then the equation (1) becomes
= ) +
DGR is the Percentage of real power supplied by the DG
to the Total real power Demand. Since the load demand is
varied with respect to the load levels, the total DG
participation ratio also varies with respect to the load
level. Hence the purchase of electricity from the
transmission grid is also varied depend on the load level.
Considering the load level, the purchase cost of electricity from
the Transmission grid before and after DG placement is given
by the equations (3) and (4) as follows
( ) ….. (3)
( )
)
Where
2.3 DG investment Cost
Another important cost to consider is the investment
cost of DG. DG investment cost heavily depends on the site
and the installation charges [14]. The site is selected based
on the size of DG. Hence the DG investment cost is
evaluated by using the Investment cost factor with respect
to the size of the DG as given in the below equation
∑ ….(5)
Where
2.4 Operation and Maintenance Cost of the DG
The operation cost of DG mainly depends on the input
fuel source hence the operation cost is equivalent to the
fuel cost. The DG operation cost also varies with respect to
the load level as the number of operation hours varies.
Compare to the DG operation cost, the DG maintenance
cost is meager. Hence the total DG operation and
maintenance cost [14] is estimated with the factor value
based on the size of DG. The equation (6) has been
modeled to estimate the DG operation and maintenance
cost

∑ …. (6)
2.5 Distribution system’s net saving Evaluation
As stated in the introduction of this section, the main
aim of this paper is to improve the economic benefit of the
DS by increasing the Net savings of the DS. This net
savings largely depends upon the participation of DG in
reducing electricity purchase cost from the transmission
grid and also the various DG costs as discussed in the
sections 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4. Based on the above cost formulas,
the Net savings is modeled for the plan period and it is
given in the equation (7).
((∑ ( ∑ ((
) ( )) )
)
)
Where
The Present worth factor [14] depicts the annual cost with
considering the Inflation rate and Interest Rate in planning
Period. Since the Electricity purchase cost and DG’s input
fuel source varies with respect to the time it is necessary
to include the Present worth factor to balance the cost in
the planning periods
( ) ….(8)
Where
in %
e in %
2.6 Objective Function
The objective function (F1) of this paper is to
maximize the net savings of the distribution system by
reducing the purchase cost of Electricity from the
transmission Grid by incorporating the optimal DG size at
the optimal Bus placement. This objective function is given
in the equation (9) as follows
….(9)
The above objective is achieved by satisfying following
operational constraints
Constraint I: Bus Voltages
The systems Bus voltage must be
maintained around its nominal value within a permissible
voltage band, specified as [ .This can be
mathematically described as:
….(10)
Where,
is the minimum permissible voltage at bus
is the maximum permissible voltage at bus
Constraint II: The DG capacities
The capacity of each DG should also be varied
around its maximum size as estimated for the planning
period. Hence each DG must also be maintained within a
permissible band, specified as [ ] , where
is the minimum permissible Real Power value of
each DG capacity and is the maximum permissible
Real Power value of each DG capacity. This should be a
mandatory requirement since if a DG capacity is less than
the specified minimum value, then the type and cost of the
corresponding DG should also be varied. Similarly the
Power factor (Pf) of each DG should to be maintained
within a permissible band, specified as [ ]
where is the minimum permissible Power factor
value of each DG capacity and is the maximum
permissible Power factor value of each DG capacity. This
can be mathematically described as:
.…. (11)
….. (12)
Reactive power formulation of the Distribution
Generation from the Real Power is given as below
.…. (13)
Where
Constraint III: Power balancing Constraints
The bus Voltage and the distribution system line
flows are obtained using the newton raphson load flow
solution. The Power balance constraints are one of the
most important criteria to be met during load flow

calculation. The Power Balance constraints of each bus to
be met is given as follows
∑ .….(14)
∑ .….(15)
Where
N
3. GA AND PSO FOR MAXIMUM NET SAVINGS
GA and PSO based stochastic algorithms are used
to solve the optimization problem of maximizing the net
profit of the DS with the optimal allocation of
predetermined number of DG’s in the specified timing and
also not violating the system operation limits as given in
the section 2.6. In this paper, both the GA and PSO
algorithmic structure follows the same methodology used
in the literature [13].
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
In this paper, the proposed optimization problem of
achieving maximum economic benefits mentioned in the
section 2.6 has been accomplished with MATLAB
Programming application. The optimization has been
carried out for DG’s planning period of 3 years and the
number of DG chosen for optimization is three. Assumed
all the three generators should be in operation for all the
three load levels and also a minimum of 100 KW is
supplied from each generator. As mentioned in the section
2.1, three load level patterns such as light, medium and
peak have been used in this optimization. The operation
time duration of DG and DG’s load demand sharing
percentage of each load level is mentioned in the table 1.
To check the effectiveness of the optimization problem, 9
Bus radial distribution test system has been used for
implementation. While implementing the optimization
problem for achieving best results, the system should not
violate the systems security limits. The systems static
constraint limits are given in the table 2. The Technical
information regarding the multi load level and commercial
information [14] regarding the purchase of electricity
from the transmission grid are given in the table 1.
Similarly, DGs commercial information [14] and maximum
Installed size information are given in the table 3 and table
4 respectively. As mentioned in the section 3, two
standard optimization Algorithms GA and PSO are also
used for solving the optimization problem. The
Parameters of optimization algorithms are given in the
table.5. The results and detailed study for test system are
as follows
4. 1 9 Bus Radial Distribution Test system:
The test system for case study is 9 bus [10] radial
distribution system. Total nominal load of the system is
(12368 + j 4186) kVA. The rated line voltage of the
System is 23 kV. Base case real power loss and reactive
power loss for the nominal load is 783.4347 kW and
1036.4117 kVAR respectively. Minimum bus voltage of the
nominal load is 0.8375 p.u at bus no.9. The load demands
of light, Medium and Peak load level of this system is given
by 6184 kW, 12368 kW and 19788.8 kW respectively. As
per DGs load demand share contract in the table.1, the
total DG real power supply for each load level demand is
given by 3092 kW, 4947.2 kW, 5937kW respectively.
Optimal size, location and power factor of the DG for each
load level in achieving the maximum net profit or net
savings using GA and PSO algorithms are obtained and
recorded in the table.6. From the table.6, it is inferred that
16% of the cost has been saved from the total electricity
purchase cost by placing and sizing the DG with the
optimum results recorded in the table 6. It is inferred from
the table 6 that 91-92 % of the real power loss has been
reduced from the base case real power loss in light load
level for the two algorithms. Similarly for the two
algorithms, around 90% and 86% of the power loss has
been reduced from the base case real power loss in
medium and peak load level respectively. The percentage
reduction of real power loss from the nominal load for the
algorithms has been recorded in the sixth column of the
table.6. A minimum voltage of 0.97 p.u , 0.95 p.u and 0.93
pu have been maintained in light, medium and peak load
level during optimization. From the above, it is evident
that the voltage of all the bus have been maintained within
their limits and also ensures the high security of the
system.
5. ALGORITHM’S PERFORMANCE MEASURES
The Statistical measures such as worst, best, mean,
standard deviation and the objective of maximum net
profit in percentage of the two algorithms for the given
test system is recorded in the table 7 by conducting 20
different trials. From this, it is inferred that the percentage
of maximum net profit for the test system is same to the
both algorithms but the number of iterations for achieving
maximum net profit using PSO is better than compared to
GA. It is obvious from the two algorithms convergence
graph in fig.1. It is also evident from the table 7 that the
low standard deviations around the high mean value of
PSO shows the better quality and robustness of the PSO
compared to that of GA. The statistical analysis clearly
depicts that PSO provides greater amount of balance

between exploitation and exploration process. PSO
optimization percentage of reduction in real power loss
shows better reduction rate compared with that of base
case real power loss in all the three load levels.
Table 1: Technical and Commercial Information
Multilevel
load
Annual
Time
Duration
in Hrs
% of
Nominal
Load
DGR in
$/KWh
Light 2190 50% 50% 0.053
Medium 4745 100% 40% 0.073
Peak 1825 160% 30% 0.105
Table 2: System’s Static Constraint limits
Table 3: Commercial Information of DG
Parameter Value
[14 ] in
$/Kwh
0.036
in $/Kw [14 ] 400
Number of
DG
3
Interest Rate
[ ]
9%
Inflation Rate
[ ]
12%
3 Years
Table 4: DG’s Installation Capacity of the Test system
Radial Bus
Distribution
Test System
Maximum DG Installation size
in kW
DG1 DG2 DG3
9 Bus 2000 3000 2000
Table 5: GA and PSO Algorithmic Parameters
Parameters GA [13]
Population size 30
Selection
Method
Roulette Selection
Cross Over Simple Cross over
Mutation Simple Mutation
Mutation
Probability
0.05
Cross Over
Probability
Randomly selected between 0.5 to 0.8
For Each Trial
Survival
Selection
0.8
Probability
Termination 1000
Initial Inertia W
PSO[13]
0.98
Constants C1,C2 2,2
Random
numbers r1,r2
Between 0 to 1
Pop size 30
Termination 1000
Table 6: Simulation Results of GA and PSO for 9 Bus test
system
Parameters Techniques
GA PSO
Loc Size Pf Loc Size Pf
Light Load
Total Load is 6184 kW
Total Real Power Loss before DG is 169.8987 kW
Optimal location,
size in kW & pf of
DG
6 1332 0.9 6 1615 0.918
9 1006 0.99 8 650 0.990
8 755 0.885 9 827 0.993
Minimum voltage
bus
4 4
Minimum voltage
(p.u)
0.9927 0.9911
Total real power
loss after DG in
kW
16.12 12.25
Medium Load
Total Load is 12368 kW
Total Real Power Loss before DG is 783.4347 kW
Optimal location,
size in kW & pf of
DG
6 1784 0.846 6 1978 0.812
9 1808 0.985 8 1329 0.993
8 1355 0.977 9 1641 0.992
Minimum voltage
bus
5 7
Minimum voltage
(p.u)
0.9753 0.975
Total real power
loss after DG in
kW
80.199 78.212
Peak Load
Total Load is 19788.8kW
Total Real Power Loss before DG is 2590.2818 Kw
Optimal location,
Size of DG in kW and
pf of DG
6 1422 0.712 6 1517 0.7
9 2796 0.989 8 2420 0.973
8 1720 0.944 9 2000 0.987
Minimum voltage
bus
7 9
Minimum voltage
(p.u)
0.9388 0.9326
Total real power
loss after DG in kW
369.15 372.91
Total Electricity
Purchase Cost
Before DG in $
30355517.55
Total Electricity
Purchase Cost after
DG With DG O&M
25493057.53
Parameter Value
0.7
Unity
0.9
1

cost and Investment
Cost in $
Total Net Savings or
Total Profit in $
4862460.022
Table 7: Comparison of Algorithm’s Performance Measure
Test System 9 Bus
Algorithm GA PSO
Worst 4860880.44 4862124.74
Best 4861220.34 4862460.02
Mean 4861044.88 4862314.03
Standard Deviation 99.42 93.60
Net Profit in % 16.01 16.01
% of Real
Power Loss
reduction
Light 90.51 92.79
Medium 89.76 90.01
Peak 85.74 85.60
No of Iterations for
convergence
550 380
Fig.1: Convergence graph of GA and PSO.
6. CONCLUSION
The proposed optimization problem of DG placement
and sizing helps the Distribution System to increase their
total net savings of the system and also by maintaining the
system’s bus voltage in high profile, the security level of
the system has been improved. The real power loss of the
system after DG inclusion has been drastically reduced
compared to that base case (nominal) load demand. The
PSO ensures good optimization results by showing its
better performance measures compared to that of the GA.
Performance of PSO clearly depicts that the algorithm has
a greater balance between diversification and
intensification during the search for best optimized results
convergence graph of both GA and PSO is given in fig.1.
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BIOGRAPHY
K.MAREESAN (Author 1) is currently
working with VSVN Polytechnic College,
Virudhunagar, Tamilnadu, India. His
area of interest are Power System in
deregulation environment and
Electrical Machines.

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