Optimal shunt capacitor placement in radial distribution system

Abstract

This paper proposed a Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA) method to identify the optimal location and size of shunt capacitor in radial distribution system. The main objective is to reduce the power loss in the system by using the reactive power compensation strategy. The proposed method is tested on IEEE 33-bus and 69-bus system and then verified with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The proposed method results seem to surpass the solution given by PSO technique not only in power loss reduction, but also in convergence performance.