Armed with such a vision, this paper proposes the employment of meta-heuristic optimizer agents aimed at addressing voltage regulation in a distributed scenario. In particular, it is demonstrated that the cost functions describing the voltage regulation objectives can be obtained by solving distributed consensus problems over a network of cooperative and dynamic agents. In addition, all the basic operations required to solve the voltage regulation problem can be computed by the distributed meta-heuristic optimizer agents according to a totally decentralized/non-hierarchical paradigm.
Definitively, in a very simple way, based on the global grid conditions each voltage controller may decide if and when a reactive power flow injection into the network is most useful.