Empress Catherine II Saint-Petersburg Mining University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

D. A. Ustinov, Dean, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor, Ustinov_DA@pers.spmi.ru
I. I. Rastvorova, Head of Department, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor
A. E. Polivanov, Post-Graduate Student

All energy systems in the world undergo currently tremendous changes. In the context of steadily growing power consumption, race for energy efficiency in industries and wide popularity of renewable energy sources, the concept of distributed generation of electricity has become one of the highest priority topics of research in scientific community in the last decade. Distributed generation is extremely vital for mineral mines which are recently tending to decentralized power supply. Distributed generation as a system of users or groups of users with their own power supply sources is very important. One of the advantages of such power service is a wider coverage of area of spread of minerals, which can promote efficiency of mineral mining. However, despite benefits that distributed generation can offer, the concept breeds many issues and problems which prevent its blanket introduction in the power systems and networks of mines. The key problems of making distributed generation a full-value branch in development and improvement of electric power systems are connected with planning, including positioning of distributed generation facilities and selection of their types and parameters. This article offers a scientific review of the distributed generation optimization methods, their analysis, as well as proposals on development of a new, more effective and advanced method on the basis of hybridization of the existing techniques.

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