“…Thus, the main idea of this paper is to reduce the deviations between mean and maximum measured and calculated conductor temperatures, as well as heating and cooling powers, in order to improve the accuracy of predicted maximal available power line loading. This is done in the proposed DE based optimization procedure, where the measured data and conductor heating model (2) to (12) are used together in order to determine those values of parameters α 20 , r 20 , β, Nu and ε in (3) to (8), where the sum of squared differences between the time behaviours of measured and calculated conductor temperatures is minimal. The applied optimization tool, DE, is described briefly in the next section.…”