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

Table 12

The results obtained by five methods for Subcase 2.2.2.

Method	FBI	HBO	MSGO	CEA	MEA
Minimum power loss (MW)	2.24	2.16	2.10	2.05	2.03
Mean power loss (MW)	2.61	2.37	2.46	2.27	2.31
Maximum power loss (MW)	3.93	2.64	4.24	2.70	2.77
STD	0.28	0.13	0.37	0.15	0.14
N1	20	60	30	60	60
N3	100	100	100	100	100
Locations of WPPs	30, 19	19, 30	30, 19	30, 19	24, 30
Generation of WPPs (MW)	9.83, 9.28	9.98, 9.97	9.70, 8.15	9.99, 9.98	9.95, 9.99
Power factor of WPPs	0.98, 0.96	1.00, 0.96	1.00, 0.92	0.94, 0.88	0.87, 0.99