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Simultaneously, the continuous variables are mainly associated with the power flow solution. The main contribution of this research is the reformulation of the exact MINLP model through a mixed-integer second-order cone programming model (MI-SOCP). This mixed-integer conic model maintains the nonlinearities of the original MINLP model; however, it can be solved efficiently with the branch &amp; bound method combined with the interior point method adapted for conic programming models. The main advantage of the proposed MI-SOCP model is the possibility of finding the global optimum based on the convex nature of the power flow problem for each binary\/integer variable combination in the branch &amp; bound search tree. The numerical results in the IEEE 33- and IEEE 69-bus systems demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed MI-SOCP model compared to different metaheuristic approaches. The MI-SOCP model finds the final power losses of the IEEE 33- and IEEE 69-bus systems of 138.416kW and 145.397kW, which improves the best literature results reached with the flower pollination algorithm, i.e., 139.075 kW, and 145.860kW, respectively. 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