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Abstract

Present day distribution networks operating at lower voltages waste major part of generated power as loss. Capacitor banks (CBs) are usually placed to supply VARs and reduce the real power loss. It may not be possible to place CBs at all nodes but can be placed only at selected number of buses for economic reasons. Recently football game based optimization (FGBO) was suggested to solve real world optimization problems. This paper builds the CB placement problem as an optimization problem and employs FGBO for solving the problem. It applies the developed algorithm on two test systems and presents the results.