Optimal Power Flow for Iraqi Power System

In operating and planning power systems, operators need to make decisions for different goals. As it happened, many tools were developed to assist operators. One of the tools that helps operators operate the system optimally under certain constraints is the optimal power flow (OPF). This paper offers an effective and reliable dynamic approach for solving the problem of optimum power flow. The proposed approach employs the genetic algorithm (GA) to optimize the control variables for the (OPF) issue. The target function is decreasing the cost of generation and the losses of transmission. The proposed algorithm applied to the Iraqi power system 39-bus, and the results showed the strength, durability, and proposed of the effectiveness genetic algorithm in solving the OPF issue.