A novel technique for generation tracing via Evolutionary Programming

On account of the inability of transaction based charging method to provide fair and non-discriminatory transmission service pricing, tracing the flow of electricity becomes an essential part in deregulated power system and has attracted many researchers regarding on how to improve and streamline the method of charge allocation. The existing power tracing techniques still necessitate for an assumption and also demands for matrix inversion operation, which has limited their usage especially when the matrix to be inversed is not singular. This paper presents a novel technique for allocating the losses and load powers to all generators by means of Evolutionary Programming (EP) algorithm. The developed algorithm has been experimented on IEEE 57-bus RTS and the results revealed that EP can also be a sophisticated tool to be applied in power tracing field with tolerable computation time.