Joint Planning of Substations and Feeders in Urban Distribution Network Considering Real Street Layouts

There is a significant gap between the academic research and practical application of urban distribution network planning. In general, the distribution network planning in academic research does not consider the impact of real street layout on planning, which makes most distribution network models difficult to apply in practice. In addition, the planning of substations and feeders in urban distribution network planning is often carried out separately, which often leads to suboptimal planning results. The objective function that is often used in academia is also difficult to meet the needs of field planners. Aiming at the above problems, this paper proposes a joint planning model of substations and feeders in urban distribution network considering real street layout, fully considers the influence of real street layout on feeders and substations planning. The model uses the minimum load moment as the objective function and further improves it. The proposed model is recast as a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem, and it can be solved by the state-of-art commercial solver. The effectiveness and validity of the proposed model are illustrated on a 16-block test system.