Mohammad Hadi Shaban Boloukat

This paper aims at investigating the effectiveness of the proposed model in Part I. For this, an IEEE 33-bus distribution system is selected, and the proposed algorithm is performed on it. Simulation results obtained from this system show that placing microgrids (MGs) in the distribution network has benefits for all participants; because the proposed model, in addition to considering the objectives of DSO, finds the potential places to form MGs such that the obtained benefits of MGs are also provided for investments on establishing MGs at these places. The obtained results of this model are applicable for both DSO and MG investors.

According to the increasing penetration of microgrids (MGs) in power systems, the design and implementation of these new emerged structures are under the question of planners, operators, and investors of electrical energy sector. This paper aims at finding a response for this question to present a game based model under a competitive market for long-term multiperiod planning of a distribution network containing several MGs, such that it can model the impact of decision making of the distribution system operator (DSO) on the MG investor and vice versa, also improve MG allocation algorithms. To achieve this, a mixed-integer nonlinear bilevel programming (MINBLP) is employed, where in the external level, DSOs objectives and in the internal level, MGs objectives are optimized based on the dictation by DSO. Since solving this type of problems by employing the conventional tools is almost impossible, so a mathematical method is utilized to convert this problem to a standard form. In the proposed method, using the reformulation and linearization, the available binary variables are transformed to a continuous form and then are linearized.