Enhancing Power Quality in Microgrids with Hybrid Tuna-Glowworm Swarm
Optimization Strategy for Renewable Energy Sources
Abstract
The adoption of Microgrids (MGs) assists in evolving the power grid into
a more effective, flexible, minimized losses, and less polluted solution
for offering the necessities and acquirements of energy consumers.
Diverse Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) are incorporated into the MGs
owing to their characteristics including the inability and variability
for precisely controlling and predicting the created various technical
issues. The essential issue in MGs that needs to be handled is achieving
the essential Power Quality (PQ) regarding the stabilization in voltages
and distortions in harmonic levels. Thus, various types of equipment are
recommended for enhancing the challenges regarding the uncertainty in
sources and nonlinearity in loads. To mitigate the PQ issue in MGs, a
new hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm called Hybrid Tuna-Glow worm Swarm
Optimization (HT-GWSO) is suggested in this research work. It is
implemented with the integration of both Tuna Swarm Optimization (TSO)
and Glowworm Swarm Optimization (GSO) algorithms, where the controller
parameters are tuned by HT-GWSO. It focuses on enhancing the PQ by
differing active power with reactive power. The objective as the
minimization of error function along with reducing the power variants is
considered here.