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

Table 6

The results obtained by five implemented methods for Subcase 1.3.1.

Method	FBI	HBO	MSGO	CEA	MEA
Minimum cost ($/h)	728.61	728.40	728.80	728.39	728.15
Mean cost ($/h)	731.27	729.73	736.72	731.28	728.74
Maximum cost ($/h)	738.69	731.50	762.72	765.83	730.55
STD	1.89	0.71	7.52	5.13	0.57
N1	20	60	30	60	60
N3	100	100	100	100	100
Generation of WPP at node 30 (MW)	9.9731	10	9.9589	10	10
Generation of WPP at node 3 (MW)	9.9693	10	9.9999	9.9858	10
Power factor of WPP at node 30	0.92	0.9004	0.9803	0.9048	0.8857
Power factor of WPP at node 3	0.9782	0.9366	0.9992	0.9838	0.947