Conference paper
An overview of trends in distribution network planning: A movement towards smart planning
Abstract
Distribution network planning, historically known as a ‘predict and provide’ process, seeks to determine a set of optimal network solutions for supplying electric demands spatially distributed over a geographic area. Today, the rapid development and deployment of distributed generation and smart grid products (e.g., control, communication, and new economic measures) call for urgent improvements in distribution network planning to allow the utilities to proactively modernize their existing distribution grids.
This paper reviews the current practices in this area and the emerging trends towards smart planning. Some challenges with smart planning are identified and briefly discussed.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 1-5 |
| Proceedings: | 2014 IEEE PES T&D Conference and Exposition |
| ISBN: | 1479936561 , 147993657X , 147993657x , 9781479936564 and 9781479936571 |
| ISSN: | 21608555 and 21608563 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1109/TDC.2014.6863446 |
| ORCIDs: | You, Shi , Bindner, Henrik W. and Hu, Junjie |
