Optimized Power Distribution Planning A Review

Abstract

Distribution system planning is extremely important for the end consumers of electricity; it is indeed become necessity to explore the area of real term planning of distribution system. The practical planning of distribution system incorporates the selection of optimal conductor size selection and capacitor placement in radial distribution network in distribution system. The load flow needs to carry out on the distributed system for power flow calculation at each node subjected to various system constraints to minimize total energy losses as well as cost. The capacitor placement includes the voltage constraint and load variation. Reactive power status needs to be investigated for the voltage profile on the feeder. In this paper, different techniques for distribution system planning have been presented based on previous literature to anticipate the future requirement and new hybrid techniques can be developed to enhance the current distribution system with the incorporation of more system constraints. 