A New Application Technique of Genetic Algorithm for Power Flow

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The most of conventional power flow(PF) calculations which adopt the well-known numerical methods such as Newton-Raphson method often diverge in certain critical cases like near the voltage collapse point. Some Approaches have been reported for the application of Genetic Algorithm(GA) to PF problem to overcome the disadvantages mentioned above. This paper presents a new application technique of GA for PF problem, in which some improvements and modifications are made ; modification of fitness function, improvements on crossover method, mutation law and convergence criterion, introduction of reactive power check routine. Some case studies with IEEE 5, 6, 14 bus systems are performed to show the performance of proposed algorithm.