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A local relaxation approach for the siting of electrical substations. (English) Zbl 1104.90032
Summary: The siting and sizing of electrical substations on a rectangular electrical grid can be formulated as an integer programming problem with a quadratic objective and linear constraints. We propose a novel approach that is based on solving a sequence of $${\mathbf local}$$ relaxations of the problem for a given number of substations. Two methods are discussed for determining a new location from the solution of the relaxed problem. Each leads to a sequence of strictly improving feasible integer solutions. The number of substations is then modified to seek a further reduction in cost. Lower bounds for the solution are also provided by solving a sequence of mixed-integer linear programs. Results are provided for a variety of uniform and Gaussian load distributions as well as some real examples from an electric utility. The results of gams/dicopt, gams/sbb, gams/baron and cplex applied to these problems are also reported. Our algorithm shows slow growth in computational effort with the number of integer variables.

##### MSC:
 90C10 Integer programming
##### Software:
BARON; CPLEX; DICOPT; GAMS; NLPLIB; OPERA; SNOPT; TOMLAB
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