Optimal Placement of Phasor Measurement Units Using Deterministic and Metaheuristic Algorithms

The method of minimizing the number of necessary phasor measurement units (PMUs) while ensuring that the entire power system is completely observable is known as optimal PMUs placement problem. This research paper suggests different algorithms which can be used to solve the problem of optimal placement of phasor measurement units to maximize the observability of the power system during normal operating conditions as well as in single branch outages or PMU unavailability conditions. Deterministic and metaheuristic algorithms are the two types of algorithms that can be used to solve the optimization problem which aims at identifying where PMUs should be placed.