Optimal location and size of solar farm on power system using bees algorithm with consideration of solar radiation

Abstract

A solar energy is most popular renewable energy source which can reduce usage of fuel in thermal generation and impact on environment. The solar energy is a clean and sustainable source. This paper proposed method of finding optimal locating and sizing of PV solar farm on the power system with minimize fuel costs by considering solar radiation in each location of solar farm. The bees algorithm (BA) is used to minimize fuel cost of thermal units by changing location and varying sizes of solar farm with security constraints of power system and solar radiation. IEEE 30 bus test system is used to verify the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method found the optimal position of solar farm with minimum economic cost