Quick response to service interruption and minimizing the corresponding customers' loss is significantly important to distribution utilities so that their highly competitive service quality is guaranteed. This paper proposed a new mix integer linear programming based network reconfiguration method to minimize the economic loss of end use customers due to service interruptions during regular equipment maintenance with the customer sensitivity to service interruption being incorporated. An evaluation model is also proposed to quantify the customer sensitivity to service interruption so that customers with different sensitivity values are compensated by different electricity loss cost. The sensitivity value is calculated considering four variations: the average loading level, the customer importance level, the request for service uninterrupted and the historical customer complaint information.
['Zitong Song', 'Jianhua Zhang', 'Qin Zhou']
MILP method based network reconfiguration considering customer sensitivity to the service interruptions