Reconfiguration of Deregulated Distribution Network for Minimizing Energy Supply Cost by using Multi-Objective BGA

In this paper, the problem of finding the optimal topological configuration of a deregulated distribution network is considered. The new features of this paper are proposing a multiobjective function and its application on deregulated distribution networks for finding the optimal configuration. The multi-objective function will be defined for minimizing total Energy Supply Costs (ESC) and energy losses subject to load flow constraints. The optimal configuration will be obtained by using Binary Genetic Algorithm (BGA).The proposed method has been tested to analyze a sample and a practical distribution networks.

Authors:

• H. Kazemi Karegar
• S. Jalilzadeh
• V. Nabaei
• A. Shabani

Keywords:

• Binary Genetic Algorithm
• Deregulated Distribution Network
• Minimizing Cost
• Reconfiguration.

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