Resilience-oriented Operation of Power Distribution Networks with Line Hardening and Comprehensive Reconfiguration Measures

With the frequent occurrence of extreme events like natural disasters and man-made attacks, the resilience concept is attracting worldwide research attention. Thus, this paper proposes a resilient operation model for the power distribution network (PDN) to recover load and limit economic loss to the greatest possible extent. First, the line hardening measure is applied to strengthen the PDN to avoid the serious breakdown of distribution lines. In addition, a comprehensive single commodity flow-based reconfiguration approach is used which not only sets the buses connecting generation sources but also those at the end of broken lines as the slack buses. Then, the radiality of PDNs can still be guaranteed after reconfiguration. The resilience-oriented operation problem can be originally formulated as a nonlinear programming one while efficient linearization methods are applied to reduce computational burdens. Hence, the operation problem is reformulated as a mixed-integer linear programming one which will enjoy favorable solution performances. Finally, case studies on an IEEE 33 PDN including comparison cases with traditional benchmarks are done to show the effectiveness of our method.