IEEE Access, 2024 (SCI-Expanded)
The improvement of electrical power system efficiency by solving the Optimal Power Flow problem involves identifying optimal controllable setpoints. This study presents a methodology that integrates a Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm with Artificial Neural Networks to minimize losses and costs. The objective is to reduce both generation fuel costs and transmission line losses while adhering to system constraints. The PSO algorithm is employed iteratively to generate initial results, which are then refined through ANN training and evaluation. This iterative process aids in determining the optimal parameters for the final PSO model.. The proposed approach is applied to the IEEE 30-bus and IEEE 14-bus standard system, resulting in a fuel cost of (797.25 /hour) and losses of (2.38 MW) for IEEE 30-bus and (828.29 /h), (2.79 MW) for IEEE-14 bus. Experimental findings underscore the method's effectiveness compared to other approaches documented in the recent literature in terms of minimizing the objective function.