Increasing the Resistance of the Azarbaijan Electric Network Against Graphite Bomb

Graphite bombs are one of the major threats of the electricity network. These bombs are able to create short circuits on the network. Maybe the most troublesome of these threats is bus elimination from the system. To simulate this problem first of all, electric stations were excluded from the system in Azerbaijan network one by one to identify the station that’s absence led to maximum line density in the system. Secondly congestion management is implemented by Thyristor Controlled Series Compensation (TCSC) and Phase-Shifting Transformer (PST) that are types of FACTS devices. Due to locate the devices, used ABC and CFA-PSO algorithms. Simulation results shows the effectiveness of presented method.