  We consider the energy of smooth generalized distributions and also of
singular foliations on compact Riemannian manifolds for which the set of their
singularities consists of a finite number of isolated points and of pairwise
disjoint closed submanifolds. We derive a lower bound for the energy of all
$q$-dimensional almost regular distributions, for each $q< \dim M,$ and find
several examples of foliations which minimize the energy functional over
certain sets of smooth generalized distributions.
