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

Table 7

The results obtained by five implemented methods for Subcase 1.3.2.

Method	FBI	HBO	MSGO	CEA	MEA
Minimum cost ($/h)	728.20	727.41	728.81	726.84	726.77
Mean cost ($/h)	730.67	728.69	731.75	728.17	728.04
Maximum cost ($/h)	733.77	729.89	739.08	730.59	730.35
STD	1.27	0.60	2.20	0.98	0.95
N1	20	60	30	60	60
N3	100	100	100	100	100
Locations of WPPs	30, 24	30, 19	24, 19	30, 5	30, 5
Generation of WPPs (MW)	9.95, 9.9623	10, 9.9995	10, 9.9982	10, 10	10, 10
Power factor of WPPs	0.9604, 0.9349	0.9605, 0.9394	0.9418, 0.9135	0.9342, 0.9458	0.9433, 0.8718