Compensación de la potencia reactiva en sistemas de baja tensión mediante bancos de condensadores fijos, utilizando algoritmos genéticos.

The energy efficiency of an electric system depends in great measure of the reactive power compensation that it is carried out. One of the roads more employees are the use of capacitors banks. A good selection of these, presupposes three aspects: the selection of the banks capacity, the compensator type to use, as well as the location in the low voltage system. References of methods that consider the three aspects in a same problem are based on the mathematical programming, but these cannot represent all the effects of the compensation and these based in technical of continuous programming, being this a complex optimization problem of discreet search space. In the paper, we have developed a method with the employment of the genetic algorithms, which facilitates a more exact problem formulation. The method has been programmed in MATLAB, version 7.5 (R2007b), using programming structures of Genetic Algorithm and Direct Search Toolbox.The effectiveness is shown in an example of real application to the low voltage system of a hotel installation of the Cubanacan Company in Camagüey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]