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Abstract

An efficient and practical method for minimization of energy loss in electrical networks over intervals of time is presented. The proposed method uses different loading conditions during each given time interval instead of single snapshot loading of the network. The given interval is divided into several subintervals. The first load condition is a current snapshot and subsequent ones are forecasted. Energy loss minimization and power loss minimization are compared by simulated application to the IEEE 6-bus system. As seen in these simulation results, the proposed method not only improves the voltages profile, but it also decreases the total energy loss over the given time interval.