Аnalysis of Domestic and Foreign Experience in Rationing the Reliability of Power Distribution Networks

The paper analyzes domestic and foreign experience and compares the different countries approaches to rationing the power distribution networks reliability. The main indicators of power supply reliability in different countries with respect to outages, approaches for planned values determination and clustering of networks with similar characteristics are considered. Understanding the basic principles of power distribution network reliability regulation applied in foreign countries allows specialists to identify best practices and adapt them to domestic conditions.