“…is a very low cost and sometimes very effective control means in power systems operation [1], [2], [3]. Network switching operations have been studied in the context of Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problems for various purposes (e.g., overload removal [4], [5], undervoltages/overvoltages alleviation [5], power loss reduction [6], [7], N-1 security improvement [8], generation dispatch cost reduction [3], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], etc.). The survey papers [1], [2], [3] provide extensive literature on this topic.…”