Energy distribution companies have to

reconnect areas affected by an outage within

a very short time, and observe operational
constraints, to avoid the possibility of severe
financial penalties by regulatory bodies.
 The method takes into account the radial
topology of the power flow and the
operational limits of voltage and cable load.
 Together with the excess connectivity,
switches are positioned in strategic points of
the network and can be set either as closed or
opened.
 Alternate routes are determined by searching
the solution space of switches states. That is,
if there are k switches present in the network,
the search space has a size 2k corresponding
to each switch being either closed or open.
 A genetic algorithm that, given the loss of a
specic branch, searches though the space of
possible switching congurations for a
solution that restores power to the affected
area without violating specied operational
limits.
 The existence of cycles in the physical
network topology allows alternate routes for
the power supply and increases the
robustness of the energy distribution to
outages.
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