A Multi-objective EPSO for Distributed energy resources planning

Abstract

There is an increasing interest in Multi-objective optimization metaheuristics to solve complex problems in many different areas. In Power Systems, Multi-objective optimization is also under intensive research applied to traditional problems and mainly to the most recent trends such as Distributed Energy Resources integration considering SmartGrids paradigm. Therefore, this paper is proposing a Multi-objective approach to the hybrid EPSO method. The Multi-objective EPSO method, called MEPSO, is applied to a discrete problem of DER impact evaluation on electric distribution network. It was observed, through the several runs, a better performance of MEPSO when compared to the NSGA-II method. Despite of being an initial evaluation, the results encourage to exploit the best of EPSO characteristics in the Multi-objective domain.