Minimizing Power Loss in Distribution System by Optimal Sizing and Sitting of Distributed Generators with Network Reconfiguration Using Grey Wolf and Particle Swarm Optimizers

This paper presents two meta-heuristic based algorithms, Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO) and Particle Swarm Optimizer (PSO), to solve network reconfiguration problem in the presence of installing multiple renewable Distributed Generators (DGs). These algorithms are applied to IEEE 33-bus to minimize the real power loss. The results clearly indicate that there is a considerable reduction in the real power loss, reactive power loss, and improvement of the voltage profile.