Optimal power flow control of hybrid renewable energy system with energy storage: A WOANN strategy

This paper proposed an optimal control technique for power flow control of hybrid renewable energy systems (HRESs) like a combined photovoltaic and wind turbine system with energy storage. The proposed optimal control technique is the joined execution of both the whale optimization algorithm (WOA) and the artificial neural network (ANN). Here, the ANN learning process has been enhanced by utilizing the WOA optimization process with respect to the minimum error objective function and named as WOANN. The proposed WOANN predicts the required control gain parameters of the HRES to maintain the power flow, based on the active and reactive power variation in the load side. To predict the control gain parameters, the proposed technique considers power balance constraints like renewable energy source accessibility, storage element state of charge, and load side power demand. By using the proposed technique, power flow variations between the source side and the load side and the operational cost of HRES in light of weekly and daily prediction grid electricity prices have been minimized. The proposed technique is implemented in the MATLAB/Simulink working stage, and the effectiveness is analyzed via the comparison analysis using the existing techniques. Published under license by AIP Publishing.