Optimal Placement of Reclosers in a Radial Distribution System for Reliability Improvement

There is a need for the optimal positioning of protective devices to maximize customers satisfaction per their demands. Such arrangement advances distribution system reliability maximum achievable. Thus, radial (RDS) can be improved by placing reclosers at suitable feeder sections. This article presents comprehensive details an attempt determine reclosers’ location in RDS utility profit improvement. Assessment different indices such as SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIFI, CAIDI, etc., with recloser placement, exhibits considerable improvement these contrast absence recloser. Consequently, new bidirectional formulation has been proposed optimized reclosers’. efficiently handles power flow, resulting from distributed generation (DG) unit (s) system. The model solved test utilizing Genetic algorithm (GA) optimization method. Later, results conclude that placement contributes significantly towards minimum investment and outage costs.