Several problems in power systems cannot be solved by conventional techniques are based on several
requirements which may not feasible all the time. In these situations, artificial intelligence techniques are the
obvious and the only option. Areas of application of AI in power systems are:
(i) Operation of power system like unit commitment, hydro-thermal coordination, economic dispatch,
congestion management, maintenance scheduling, state estimation, load and power flow.
(ii) Planning of power system like generation expansion planning, power system reliability, transmission
expansion planning, reactive power planning.
(iii) Control of power system like voltage control, stability control, power flow control, load frequency control.
(iv) Control of power plants like fuel cell power plant control, thermal power plant control.
(v) Control of network like location, sizing and control of FACTS devices.
(vi) Electricity markets like strategies for bidding, analysis of electricity markets.
(vii)Automation of power system like restoration, management, fault diagnosis, network security.
(viii) Applications of distribution system like planning and operation of distribution system, demand side
response and demand side management, operation and control of smart grids, network reconfiguration.
(ix) Applications of distributed generation like distributed generation planning, solar photovoltaic power plant
control, wind turbine plant control and renewable energy resources.
(x) Forecasting application like short term and long term load forecasting, electricity market forecasting, solar
power forecasting, wind power forecasting.