Loss Minimization and Reliability Enhancement in Electrical Power Distribution Systems using Network Reconfiguration with Loss Sensitivity Factor

This paper proposes Loss Sensitivity Factor (LSF) based algorithm for reconfiguration of the network to find out the best switching combinations and to attain minimum real power loss, also enhancement in voltage and reliability. The considered Network Reconfiguration Algorithm (NRA) in this paper is verified on standard IEEE 33-bus Radial Distribution System (RDS) using MATLAB.