Optimal Placement of Wind Power Plants in Transmission Power Networks by Applying an Effectively Proposed Metaheuristic Algorithm

Table 11

The results obtained by five methods for Subcase 2.2.1.

Method	FBI	HBO	MSGO	CEA	MEA
Minimum power loss (MW)	2.37	2.43	2.32	2.28	2.26
Mean power loss (MW)	2.60	2.57	2.64	2.49	2.51
Maximum power loss (MW)	2.97	2.85	3.30	2.85	2.89
STD	0.14	0.09	0.25	0.13	0.13
N1	20	60	30	60	60
N3	100	100	100	100	100
Location of WPPs	3, 30	3, 30	3, 30	3, 30	3, 30
Generation of WPPs (MW)	9.6108, 9.8128	7.4719, 9.9936	6.8908, 9.9674	9.8404, 9.9999	9.9922, 9.9299
Power factor of WPPs	0.9814, 0.9729	0.9925, 0.9352	0.8752, 0.9841	0.9974, 0.9542	0.8597, 0.9973