Techno-economic analysis of conductor & capacitor allocation in RDS using ICSA

In recent years, simultaneously the conductor and capacitor allocation have been considered as a favorable solution for reduction of real power loss, improvement of voltage profile & stability, increase reserve capacity for demand growth and maximize financial benefits in radial distribution systems (RDS). A novel approach based on meta-heuristic algorithm, known as Improved Cuckoo Search Algorithm (ICSA) is to find the optimal allocation of the system in 32-bus RDS. The suggested optimization technique is used to minimize the objective function which includes (1) cost of power losses, (2) cost of the installed conductors,(3) cost of the installed capacitors. To validation of efficiency of presented method, results are compared with previous similar works.