The load patterns in electricity markets are changing rapidly worldwide. The power engineers are becoming more vigilant in providing an uninterrupted power supply at different loading conditions. This study proposes a unique planning strategy of reactive power (VAr) considering a static load...

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...