A Fast Heuristic Network Reconfiguration Algorithm to Minimize Loss and Improve Voltage Profile for a Smart Power Distribution System

Network reconfiguration is an efficient smart grid tool. Heuristic based network reconfiguration methods are very fast in convergence as well as simple to implement. In this paper, a fast heuristic network reconfiguration method is proposed to minimize active power loss and improve voltage profile. The method is explained using a 16 bus network. The reconfiguration results for a 70 bus distribution network and a 69 bus network with distributed generations are presented and compared. This heuristic method can be effectively used for online applications as such or can be mixed up with a meta- heuristic approach for faster convergence.

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