Today, producing energy from the wind has become widespread due to developing technology. Wind turbines have become one of the renewable energy sources, which have been increasingly used in the world. Importance of wind energy has increased, so does the significance of wind turbine placement. It is aimed to obtain maximum turbine power with minimum investment cost for a wind farm. This study aims to locate the wind turbines of a wind farm to obtain the highest efficiency. Two coding methods were used to achieve this: The first is the binary coding and the second is the binary-real coding obtained by combining the binary coding and real coding. First, for binary coding, turbine placement was designed for a 2 km×2 km area and this area was divided into 10×10 and 20×20 grids and then calculated. Binary coding was used in coding. Ten different binary algorithms were obtained by using ten different transfer functions and Artificial Algae Algorithm (AAA), which is successfully applied to solve continuous optimization problems and then these algorithms were applied to the turbine placement problem. In addition to AAA, Weed Optimization Algorithm (WOA) was applied to the same area and grids by using fourteen different transfer functions to obtain fourteen different binary algorithms, and these algorithms were applied to turbine placement problem. Secondly, for binary-real coding, turbine placement was designed for a 2 km×2 km area and Modified Scatter Search (MSS) algorithm was used. Due Thanks to the preliminary process proposed to produce the initial population, it was ensured that the wind turbines could be effectively scattered over the field. In the SS algorithm, population diversity was provided by five different crossover techniques and the proposed mutation operation. The algorithm, which also provided the best result in binary coding for the wind turbine placement problem solved by both coding methods, was called Binary Artificial Algae Algorithm (BAAA). The results of the algorithm proposed for the binary turbine placement optimization problem were compared with those of well-known algorithms in the literature. It was seen that the BAAA was an efficient and stable algorithm for the wind turbine placement problem by achieving the optimal placement in the binary search space. The Binary Weed Algorithm (BWA) following BAAA obtained a satisfactory result in this problem. It was observed that in binary-real coding, MSS algorithm was the most successful and efficient algorithm for the wind turbine placement problem, achieving the most successful and effective placement. |