The restructuring of global power industries has introduced a number of challenges, such as conflicting planning objectives and increasing uncertainties, to transmission network planners. During the recent past, a number of distributed generation technologies also reached a stage allowing large scale implementation, which will profoundly influence the power industry, as well as the practice of ...

This article proposes a framework that uses analytical assessment of reliability to guide the expansion planning power distribution systems (PDS) considering criteria. The allows estimation indices with and without execution projects, thus supporting decision-making process on investments in projects. In reliability, failure rates zones restoration times are calculated from past data interrupti...