Title of article
A two-stage approach to enhance distribution network resilience against natural disasters
Author/Authors
SABERI, REZA Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Birjand - Birjand - Iran , FALAGHI, HAMID Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Birjand - Birjand - Iran , ESMAEELI, MOSTAFA Faculty of Computer and Industrial Engineering - Birjand University of Technology - Birjand - Iran , RAMEZANI, MARYAM Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Birjand - Birjand - Iran
Pages
11
From page
53
To page
63
Abstract
The natural disasters such as floods and storms have always led to widespread damages and serious
disruptions in power distribution networks. After presenting a new index to quantitatively calculate
the resilience of the power distribution network, this paper proposes a two-stage approach to enhance
distribution network resilience against natural disasters in the presence of distributed generation (DG)
units including solar cells and conventional gas-fired power sources. The first stage includes determining
the boundaries of isolated zones and the optimal capacity of the DG units in each zone to improve the
resilience by considering budget constraints. The second stage includes determining the optimal location
of DG units in each zone to optimize the distribution network losses. A genetic algorithm (GA) based
optimization method is developed to solve the proposed problem. The performance of the proposed
approach is assessed and illustrated by numerical studies on a practical power distribution system from
Iran
Keywords
Flood , Storm , Resilience , Distributed Generation , Genetic Algorithm
Journal title
Journal of Energy Management and Technology
Serial Year
2021
Record number
2546258
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