MINIMIZING LOSSES IN NIGERIA’S 330KV TRANSMISSION NETWORK USING IMPROVED STATCOM CONTROLLER

This study presents the improvement of Nigeria’s 34-bus, 330/132?kV transmission network performance through Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) enhancement. The FACTS is improved with a STATCOM controller integrated with Random Forest (RF) algorithm. This work investigated the Nigerian 34-Bus, 330/132kV transmission network for data collection and to measure the impact of losses on the transmission network. A simulation was carried out on an equivalent IEEE 34-bus system in MATLAB/Simulink, and the successful results justified its application to the Nigerian 34-bus network through comparative analysis between the original and optimized network, which showed clear improvements, including a reduction in voltage drop from 0.758?kV to 0.732?kV and an improvement in power factor from 0.972 to 1.006.