A Method for Online Reactive Power Optimization Problem in Regional Power Grid

The automatic voltage control system in regional power grid is a significant measure to improve the system voltage and the power quality. It relies on online reactive power optimization. This paper proposes a novel algorithm aimed to build an online reactive power optimization model, which uses a hybrid algorithm combined the primal-dual interior point method and branch and bound method. Dealing with the discrete variables and continuous variables separately, the solution speed and accelerate convergence problem is improved rapidly. Finally, the efficiency of the proposed method is verified by numerical simulation in a regional power grid system.