Without DG | Method (Murthy and Kumar 2013) | Method in Dinakara Prasad Reddy et al. (2017) | Proposed method | |
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DG location | – | 16 | 6 | 30 |
DG size (kW) | – | 1000 | 2590.2 | 1544.5 |
Total real power loss (TLP) (kW) | 211 | 136.7533 | 111.0338 | 125.2 |
Total reactive power (TLR) loss (kVAR) | 143 | 92.6599 | 81.6859 | 89.3 |
Vmin (p.u.) | 0.904 | 0.9318 | 0.9424 | 0.9272 |
Cost of energy losses ($) | 16982.6 | 11,007.9 | 8930.65 | 10,067.3 |
Cost of PDG ($/MW h) | – | 20.25 | 52.05 | 31.15 |