Voltage and Reactive Power Control by Integrating Genetic Algorithm and Tabu Search Considering Control Process

This paper presents the result of executing the conventional genetic algorithm (GA) and a new method to the voltage and reactive power control (VQC). The conventional GA can give the control process and improve the fitness with the practical control times. And, the method to cancel the limited deviation as early as possible is implemented. Moreover, the method to reduce the control times to the fitness as much as possible is proposed. The proposed method is integrated the tabu search (TS) into the conventional GA. The proposed method generates next generation’s individual with the crossover of the conventional GA and the neighborhood search of the TS. Therefore, the proposed method executes an effective search. As a result, the proposed method can obtain better fitness than the conventional GA in the same calculation times. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by practical 15-bus and 118-bus systems.