Reconfiguration of Radial Electrical Distribution Network through Neighbor-Chain Updating method

This paper presents new heuristic method for Reconfiguration of Radial Electrical Distribution Network (ROREDN) based on a circular Neighbor-Chain Updating mechanism. The theory of the proposed method is to exchange every open switch of the initial configuration with its best neighbor switch. The proposed technique has been tested and compared to other existing ones on two hypothetical electrical distribution networks. The results show that this method has a significant contribution in finding optimal configuration and can be applied separately or with other optimization approaches to improve the accuracy of final solution.