A zero-one implicit enumeration method for optimizing investments in transmission expansion planning

This paper presents a zero-one implicit enumeration method applied to an integer programming subproblem which has to be solved as part of a more general process of obtaining an optimal solution for a transmission expansion planning problem by hierarchical Benders decomposition. The proposed algorithm has been successfully implemented and tested in a real-life system. The reasons why the implicit enumeration approach is particularly suited for the static expansion planning problem are fully discussed in the paper