Optimising the investments on distribution networks to meet the rules for continuity of supply: A novel planning and operation tool

The paper summarises the methodology and the results regarding the implementation of a tool dedicated to the definition of the optimal type and sequence of investments in the framework of the new rules for continuity of supply in distribution networks. After a brief description of the approach for the calculation of the continuity of supply indexes, the attention is focused on the estimation and the final tuning of the parameters adopted by the tool, and on the methodologies for the research of the optimal type and sequence of investments to improve the continuity of supply.