Distribution network restoration is a recurrent issue of interest to power industry because electric distribution grids remain vulnerable against natural disasters and customers' expectations toward the continuity of electricity service are increasing in modern society. The increasing requirement for operation efficiency has encouraged the modernization of power distribution system by implementing new technologies of control and automation and data conditioning and processing. The integrated architecture of advanced distribution and outage management systems provides situational awareness of distribution networks. Fully automated restoration takes a central role with data from the distribution state estimation for achieving the feeder loading and switching plan able to reestablish the interrupted service. In active distribution networks, restoration switching analysis moves from a multi-objective model, where operator chooses the most suitable switching plan, to a single-objective optimization model for the fully automated restoration. The numerical analysis under a real-world substation is performed in three stages taking into account, firstly, the multi-objective solution and, then, the compromise solution under load forecast and, at last, the benefits of the automatic switching operation are verified.

配电网络的恢复是电力行业经常遇到的一个问题，因为配电网仍然易受自然灾害的影响，并且现代社会中客户对电力服务连续性的期望不断提高。对运行效率的日益增长的要求通过实施控制和自动化以及数据调节和处理的新技术，鼓励了配电系统的现代化。先进的配电和停电管理系统的集成体系结构提供了配电网络的态势感知。全自动恢复在分配状态估计中的数据中起着中心作用，以实现能够重新建立中断服务的馈线装载和切换计划。在主动分销网络中，恢复切换分析从操作员选择最适合的切换计划的多目标模型转变为用于全自动恢复的单目标优化模型。实际变电站下的数值分析分三个阶段进行，首先考虑多目标解决方案，然后考虑负荷预测下的折衷解决方案，最后验证自动切换操作的好处。