Impact of Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System on total system losses with consideration of capacitor bank setting using Genetic algorithm

Distribution system has the highest total system losses. There are many methods to reduce the total system losses. Installing Distributed Generator (DG) such as Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System (GCPV) is one of the most efficient methods. However, it is too complicated because there are many related variables. A suitable optimization technique is Genetic algorithm which can be applied to complicated problems and combined with encoding, reproduction, crossover and mutation. This paper proposes the impact of Grid Connected Photovoltaic System on total system losses with setting capacitor bank using genetic algorithm. The proposed method is tested with a 54-bus Thailand test system in Matlab-Simulink.