DG Placement in Radial Distribution Network with Reconfi guration

This paper presents a simple method for fi nding the optimal DG size and optimal DG location in distribution network. By using this method, optimal DG capacity and location are determined considering without network reconfi guration and with network reconfi guration. The method is tested with three test cases: 33-node, 69-node and 117-node IEEE standard network. Result shows that the proposed method is very effi cient and competitive with the existing methods available in the literature.