With the increasing use of technologies and automation in different sides of modern life, the outage of
electricity became a big issue that widely affects the daily life of most sectors like industrial, economical or
even entertaining sector. So it
became so necessary to achieve a high-reliability electrical system to insure
the continuation of electricity supply to the end consumer.
Consequently, in this research, we are studying a new method of service restoration using genetic
algorithms to increase the reliability of distribution systems and improving its performance. The research
includes a brief aver view of electrical systems reliability and the basics of Genetic Algorithms and the use
of these techniques in dispatching centers. In addition we have designed a program in "MATLAB"
environment to apply the service restoration technique using genetic algorithms, and the program has
been tested on a case study with the relative results shown .
