This paper demonstrates an artificial ecosystem optimization (AEO) for the multi-goal electric network reconfiguration (ENR) problem (ENRP). The membership goal functions of the ENRP comprise power loss reduction, voltage deviation reduction, reduction of load unbalance index among branches and reduction of number of switch operations. To show the advantages of AEO for the multi-goal ENRP, the multi-goal ENR approaches relied on particle swarm optimization (PSO), genetic algorithm (GA) and cuckoo search algorithm (CSA) are applied to contrast with the AEO method. The result comparisons among methods on the 33-node distribution network show that the AEO method can archive the optimal solution with the higher success rate and the lower average value and standard deviation of the fitness values than GA and PSO. In addition, the result comparisons with other previous approaches also show the reliability of the proposed AEO method for the single and multi-goal function ENRP. Therefore, the AEO can be an effective and useful approach for the ENRP to optimize the single and the multi-goal functions.