Heuristic Optimization Techniques for Network Reconfiguration in Distribution System

Network reconfiguration is an operation to modify the network topology. The implementation of network reconfiguration has many advantages such as loss minimization, increasing system security and others. In this paper, two topics about the network reconfiguration in distribution system are briefly described. The first topic summarizes its impacts while the second explains some heuristic optimization techniques for solving the network reconfiguration problem.

Authors:

• A. Charlangsut
• N. Rugthaicharoencheep
• S. Auchariyamet

Keywords:

• Network Reconfiguration
• Optimization Techniques
• Distribution System

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