POWER SYSTEM RESTORATION IN DISTRIBUTION NETWORK THROUGH RECONFIGURATION USING MST-KRUSKAL’S ALGORITHM

Abstract

The proposed method provides one of the efficient management and operation of the distribution network through reconfiguration. Whenever an outage occurs in the distribution network, there may be partial or total block out of the system. In order to reduce interruptions to the consumers, proper switching of power lines is required and restoration of power as quickly as possible is essential. To reconfigure and determine optimal target network for minimization of the power losses, maximization of the load balance and for restoration of the power, is difficult task. The optimal target network is found through MST-Kruskal's (Minimum Spanning Tree) algorithm in IEEE standard 3 feeder, 16bus and 1 feeder, 33bus systems.