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IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, Vol. PAS-103, No. 6, June 1984 .1183 COMPUTER-AIDED PLANNING OF DISTRIBUTION SUBSTATION AND PRIMARY FEEDERS M.A. El-Kady, Senior Member, IEEE Ontario Hydro, Toronto, Canada Abstract - This paper presents an improved tech- electrical residential heating, necessitates the nique for optimal planning of substations and primary planning of new and expanded facilities. In this feeders in power distribution systems. The technique respect, further improvements to the planning method- employs an accurate, time-phased cost model and incor- ology are needed to attain more accurate time-based porates a flexible planning formulation which suits cost analysis and to cope with the firm constraints on detailed analysis of limited sized distribution net- feeder voltage drop. Although Ontario Hydro has works as well as approximate analysis of large scale successfully implemented recent approaches [51 when distribution networks. The cost model includes simple cost programming; models. are acceptable to explicit time-dependent fixed and variable charges for analyze big problems, in some planning studies an planned facilities as well as the cost of power accurate detailed analysis of relatively small systems losses. The planning formulation incorporates user- is required in addition to the approximate analysis of defined constraints on voltage