Optimum Power Flow with Respect to the Capacitor Location and Size in Distribution Network

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript is interesting and the study was carried out with adequate scientific methodologies. In my opinion the manuscript deserves to be published once the authors answer to the provided comments.

 

All the following indicated aspects should be clarified and better explained in the manuscript.

 

Introduction

1.        The authors should better highlight the innovative aspects of their work in the manuscript.

 

2.        The description of the proposed methodology could be improved. First, it could be better to insert at the beginning of Section 2 an outline about the system model and the methodology flow  diagram; the use of UML or SysML could help authors describing the proposed system view in a more structured fashion.

3.        Could the proposed approach be generalized to other types of grid (e.g., multi-carrier)?

 

Problem formulation and resolution

4.        All the used variable in all the formula and figures should report the unit.

5.        For the sake of readability, the authors should consider adding a table of nomenclature at the beginning of model description.

6.        Looking at the existing methods, in addition to conventional and non-conventional categories, it is worthwhile mentioning that power flow problems can be solved in centralized and distributed/decentralized (for large scale scenarios) settings, e.g.: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCNS.2022.3181527, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCNS.2019.2910455 (documents that could be cited in the text).

Hence, the authors are encouraged to enhance the paper positioning review, specifying if the proposed method can be applied to large scale scenarios.

7.        In particular, in addition to loads and capacitors, the system under analysis should consider also energy storage, as highlighted by several recent works on power balance and optimal power flow (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2022.105364, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5048446, documents that could be cited in the text).

Does the proposed method account for distributed storage?

 

Conclusions

8.        Conclusions needs to be extended to present further implications for future research and many managerial insights based on the results of the study, as well as limitations.

 

Minor

9.        Mainly the English is good and there are only a few typos.  However the paper should be carefully rechecked.

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Reviewer 2 Report

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Previous comments and concerns have been sufficiently addressed. In the revised paper several improvements have been added.