Optimal Installed Capacity of Renewable Energy Sources for Active Power Shortage Minimization

Recently, the policy of most countries is to use renewable energy sources (RES) together with traditional sources to meet the growing demand for electricity. In the Syrian Arab Republic, in order for eliminating the shortage of active power production, maintaining the required voltage level at the nodes of the electric network and minimizing the power losses, it is planned for integrating solar and wind power plants into the grid in conjunction with the existing traditional sources. In this paper, an approach for selecting the installed capacity of solar and wind power plants at the specified locations for installation has been provided. To demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, the results were compared with another algorithm applied in the same field. Modeling and simulation of the regional power system, as well as the optimization algorithms of the installed capacities of the proposed RES were carried out using Simulink MATLAB package.