Evolutionary algorithm application to medium voltage power system restoration

The voltage quality is one of the most important issue in power system. The distribution network has to keep up with the growing consumption and increasing reliability requirements. In many cases supply disturbance is caused by faults on medium voltage distribution networks. Throughout system restoration many switching operation are needed, figuring out the optimal ones is a demanding task. In this paper a genetic algorithm based method is proposed, which can reduce the outage time in those areas where supply can be restored while the repairing is carried out on the failed section.