Techno-economic and environmental assessments of optimal planning of waste-to-energy based CHP-DG considering load growth on a power distribution network.

Load growth puts pressure on existing electric infrastructure and impacts on the system's performance parameters which may necessitate network expansion. Conventionally, electric network expansion is done by building new substations or reinforcing the existing ones with new transformers and upgrading the network feeders. However, optimal allocation of combined heat and power distributed generators (CHP-DGs) on distribution networks (DNs) can be adopted for network expansion planning problem.