Summary
This paper focuses on automatic generation control (AGC) in deregulated environment for the multiarea interconnected power system. Each area consists of different kind of generating sources like thermal, hydro, and gas, each having different characteristics with physical constraint likes governor dead band and generation rate constraint. Loads are divided among different generator using the concept of economic load dispatch. The AC/DC links has been installed in all areas as well as unified power flow controller (UPFC) in tie lines to mitigate the effect of oscillation and to improve the system response. Thus, a more systematic and synchronized control of AGC with UPFC and AC/DC links has been proposed. Small signal stability of each area has been analyzed for finding out the oscillation states of the studied system. The proposed controller is optimized through Fruit Fly Algorithm, and its promising results reveal that the proposed controller is more efficient and effective in all different power transaction modes of restructured scenario.