The non-storage characteristics of electricity and the increasing fuel costs worldwide call for the need to operate the systems more economically. Economic dispatch (ED) is one of the most important optimization problems in power systems. ED has the objective of dividing the power demand among...

Renewable energy is energy that is in continuous supply over time. These kinds of energy sources are divided into five principal renewable sources of energy: the sun, the wind, flowing water, biomass and heat from within the earth. According to some studies carried out by the research...

This paper presents a novel approach for daily Volt/Var control in distribution systems using Distributed Generation (DG) units. The impact of DG units on Volt/Var control is significant in a distribution network with radial configuration and small X/R ratio. In this paper, a price-based...