| Abstract |
The reconfiguration of the distribution network
feeders can be defined as the restructuring of the feeders
through the changing of the open/close states of the
sectionalizing and tie switches. This creation of a new
distribution network topology is normally required to
improve the performance of the network, and thus
sometimes the efficiency of the electricity supply. For
optimum loss reduction, feeder reconfiguration is often
considered as an option. This, however, requires the
implementation of an appropriate switching control
strategy. It would be desirable for the switching to be
automatic, that is to follow the connected load situation of
the feeder. The proposed optimal reconfiguration of the
phase balancing using the heuristic method proves to be
robust compared to neural network method, to turn ON and
OFF the different switches, allowing the three phases supply
of the transformer to the end-users to be balanced. This
paper presents the application examples of the proposed
method using the real data. |
