Distribution feeder reconfiguration for service restoration and load balancing

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 724-729

  Zhou, Qin ^a,c   Shirmohammadi, Dariush ^a   Liu, W H Edwin ^b  

^a Shir Consultants San Ramon ^*

^b Pacific Gas and Electric Company   (United States)

^c PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution automation; Distribution planning and operation; Feeder reconfiguration; Fuzzy logic; Heuristic rules; Load balancing; Optimization; Service restoration

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; FUZZY SETS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; RESTORATION;

ELECTRIC LOAD BALANCING; SERVICE RESTORATION;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 0031141393     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/59.589664     Document Type: Article

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