Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony for Placement and Sizing Wind Power Plant in Electrical Power System

Electrical power producers often have difficulty meeting load requirements. The causes are large losses, the distance between consumers is too far from the power plant, the transmission and distribution lines are very long. However, producers must meet the electrical power needs of consumers at that time. A solution that can be used to solve these problems is to place distributed generation (DG) on the distribution line for consumers. There are several conditions that must be met for the placement and sizing of DG so as not to disturb with the power system. The conditions are presence of DG does not increase the level of the current short circuit, DG does not cause the power system voltage to exceed the minimum and maximum limits. The purpose of this paper is to use artificial intelligent (AI) to determine the placement and size of DG. Besides that, the type of DG used is wind power plant (WPP). The AI used is Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony (HABC). HABC is a combination of Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) and Genetic Algorithm (GA). In the discussion section, there is a comparison of the performance of each AI used. Every AI gives different results. The implementation of HABC in WPP gives the best results. The voltage rise on all buses reaches the safe limit of operation. The increase in voltage is the highest increase compared to others. The resulting Losses are also the smallest compared to others.