Loss allocation to consumers before and after reconfiguration of radial distribution networks

This paper presents allocation of power losses to consumers connected to radial distribution network before and after network reconfiguration in a deregulated environment. Loss allocation is made in a quadratic way, which is based on identifying the real and imaginary parts of current in each branch and losses are allocated to consumers. Comparison of loss allocation after multi-objective approach based distribution network reconfiguration is made with those before reconfiguration. For network reconfiguration, multiple objectives are considered for minimization of system real power loss, deviations of nodes voltage, branch current constraint violation and transformer loading imbalance and they are integrated into an objective function through appropriate weighting factors which is minimized for each tieswitch operation. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated through an example. 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.