You can add the cost of reactive power injection from a generator to the objective function. This isn't exactly equivalent to a capital cost though.
-- Ray Zimmerman Senior Research Associate 419A Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 phone: (607) 255-9645 On May 15, 2013, at 3:34 AM, muisyo irene <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi professor, > > I'm running AC OPF and would like to add a capacitor bank to inject reactive > power in the example "case9Q" hence compare the lambda before and after. I > want to place the capacitor in a load bus. > > Is it possible to add it's capital cost (which is a function of Q) to the > objective function? >
