Power Quality Enhancement in Distribution Systems Using Feeder Reconfiguration

Distribution system reconfiguration has been widely studied for power loss reduction and voltage profile enhancement. In this paper distribution system reconfiguration is employed to enhance power quality indices. The objective function includes power loss, system total harmonic distortion and voltage sag. The proposed method guarantees the network constraints are satisfied, i.e. all the buses are electrified and the system topology remains radial and the voltage and currents are within standard limits.