OPTIMUM LOCATION OF RESOURCES IN DISTRIBUTED PLANNING

The concept of installing dispersed resources in a utility distributio n or subtransmission system is gaining interest in the industry. Such resources could be photovoltaic cells, wind generation, battery storag e, fuel cells or demand-side management solicitations. Research by oth ers has suggested that the benefits of distributed resources could be substantial. However, these distributed benefits are site specific. A method to optimally locate such resources in a meshed network for maxi mizing the potential benefits is outlined in this paper. The proposed second order algorithm computes the amount of resources in selected no des to make up a given total to achieve the desired optimizing objecti ves. The network under consideration could be a transmission, sub-tran smission, or distribution network. The benefit expressed as a performa nce index can be the minimization of losses, var losses, or loadings i n selected lines.