Optimal Allocation of PMU and PDC in Electrical Power Systems
Lucas Luiz Lunarti, Maury Meirelles Gouvêa
Abstract
The Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) is a device that allows synchronized measurement of the voltage and current of electrical systems in microseconds. The PMUs are installed in substations of the power system and their measurements are sent to be processed by the Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC). In recent years, different methods applied to the optimal allocation of PMU have been addressed in the literature. The contribution of this research is, using an Adaptive Genetic Algorithm, to find the optimal simultaneous allocation of the PMU and PDCs, considering the number of channels of the PMUs, the distance between the PMUs and the PDCs and considering the observability situation for n -1 contingency. The proposed methodology made it possible to find the allocation of PMUs and PDCs for IEEE 14 and 30 bus systems.