Reconfiguration and capacitor placement for loss reduction of distribution system

There are many means in reducing the active power loss of a distribution network, two important methods are feeder reconfiguration and capacitor placement. The minimum nodal voltage method (MNV) and genetic algorithms (GA) are chosen to solve the network reconfiguration problem and capacitor placement problem, respectively. These two means are combined together so that a much better effect of loss reduction can be achieved than either method alone. The methods presented in this paper have been testified in real-time applications in an actual distribution network.