Abstract.With the development of the Distributed Generation (DG), the role of power distribution networks becomes more and more important, and their configuration tends to change from radial to meshed. In this paper, algorithms for planning meshed networks are proposed. The problem of network planning has been transformed to an operational research problem. The algorithms are automated to reduce the planning time. Additional checks have been added to reduce the total length of the final network. A reliability assessment has been proposed to locate the weak spots of a network and to compare different solutions. Finally an application of the proposed algorithms is demonstrated.
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