Pre-storm restoration planning of medium voltage distribution networks for proactive crisis management

: pre-storm proactive recovery planning is an effective tool for reduceing the time and cost of  electrical outage and resiliency enhancement of medium voltage (MV) distribution networks. This paper presents a new framework for setting proactive medium voltage feeders recovery priorities. In this method, the proactive recovery decision making and MV feeders priority setting are considered based on the comparison between different criteria including technical isuue, criticality of loads, economic and accessibility conditions. In this regard, the MV poles fragility curve and Monte Carlo simulation have been employed to predict and estimate the damage of the network. To eliminate the problem of the lack of accurate data and the uncertainties, fuzzy analytical hierarchy process is used to determine proactive recovery prioritization. In the rest of the paper, the proposed approach is applied to a test network. The results demonstrate the suitable performance of this method for determining  feeders recovery priorities especially in the less developed countries which have been facing with the lack of access to the adequate data.