Modified sunflower optimization for network reconfiguration and distributed generation placement

<span lang="EN-US">This paper proposed modified sunflower optimization (MSFO) for the combination of network reconfiguration and distributed generation placement problem (NR-DGP) to minimize power loss electric distribution system (EDS). Sunflower (SFO) is inspired form ideal plant motion get sunlight its reproduction. To enhance performance SFO, it MSFO wherein, pollination mortality techniques have been by using Levy mutation best solutions. The results are evaluated on two test systems. efficiency compared with that original SFO other algorithms in literature. comparisons show outperforms methods obtained optimal solution. Furthermore, demonstrates better statistical than SFO. So, can be a powerful approach NR-DGP problem.</span>