Performance Enhancement of Distribution Systems via Distribution Network Reconfiguration and Distributed Generator Allocation Considering Uncertain Environment

The emergence of dispersed generation, smart grids, and deregulated electricity markets has increased the focus on enhancing performance distribution systems. This paper proposes a method to reduce energy loss improve reliability systems by performing network reconfiguration (DNR) distributed generator (DG) allocation. In this study, intermittent nature renewable-based DGs load profile are considered using probabilistic method. study investigates different annual plans based seasonal power profiles minimize combined cost function not served. proposed is implemented firefly algorithm (FA), which one meta-heuristic optimization algorithms. Several case studies investigated IEEE 33-bus system highlight effectiveness