Summary
Advanced distribution automation (ADA) is a vital basis of the smart grid, which leads to enhancement of reliability level. Moreover, demand response programs are highly proposed to be employed in the smart grid. In this paper, a cross‐sectional benefit of smart grid maturity model is proposed in which the emergency demand response programs (EDRPs) are considered in the ADA planning problem. In fact, the role of EDRPs is considered in the service restoration process that affects the ADA plan. The service restoration process possesses several uncertain parameters including the demanded power of customers during service restoration, which are considered in the proposed formulation for ADA planning. The objective function of the optimization problem includes various costs imposed to the distribution system operator due to contingency occurrence including the expected total customer interruption cost, total investment cost of automatic sectionalizing switches, circuit breakers, and fuses deployment, and the total expected cost of implementing EDRP programs in the service restoration. The presented ADA planning methodology is tested on the fourth bus number of Roy Bilinton test system (RBTS4) to investigate its effectiveness.