This document summarizes a study on developing an energy efficient centralized routing protocol for wireless sensor networks based on LEACH-C. It proposes a new protocol that uses a modified parallel simulated annealing algorithm to select cluster heads in a way that distributes energy usage more evenly among sensor nodes. The protocol aims to maximize network lifetime and minimize energy dissipation. Initial simulation results show it performs better than LEACH and LEACH-C in terms of increasing the number of nodes alive over time. Further work could improve its performance even more.