Flower Pollination Algorithm Applied to the Reconfiguration Problem of Electric Power Distribution System

Resumo

The electricity sector is undergoing a transformation process driven by a set of factors that have affected
electricity distribution systems. The reconfiguration of the distribution system is a procedure performed mainly to
minimize energy losses. A good comparison oriented to results and performance can be made using the Flower
Pollination Algorithm (FPA). the FPA is a metaheuristic inspired by the pollination of plants by means of flowers
and has an optimization feature to solve the problem under analysis. This work presents an application of the FPA
for Reconfiguration of the Electricity Distribution System (RSDEE) aiming at the optimization of the problem
under analysis. The technique was validated in small balanced systems (5 nodes, 33 nodes and 70 nodes), used in
RSDEE works. The initial results were compared with other techniques, proving the efficiency in solving the
problem in competitive computational time. It was concluded that the FPA metaheuristic presents an adequate
performance for the reconfiguration problem in small and medium sized networks.