Durability and resiliency improvement in mazandaran electricity distribution company against storm

摘要

The incidence of adverse weather conditions and natural disasters have led to the imposition of widespread damages and outages in distribution network, while the number and severity of these events has been growing in recent years mainly. These outages are followed by school closures, disruption of service in emergency centres, huge financial losses to the industry and the economy, and other problems. This article reviews the rules to enhance network resiliency during bad weather conditions to reduce impacts of coercive events. Reduction of average power restoration time is named a main priority in power distribution planning and operation. Mazandaran, Iran power distribution network was taken as the study case, taking the regional natural and climatic situation into consideration.