Photovoltaic Distributed Generation Use to Reduce Technical Losses in Areas with Overloaded Feeders

This article aims to simulate the insertion of a solar generating plant in an area where there is an overload power feeder, measuring the reduction of technical electrical losses. A 2.99 MVA transformer was selected with 30% overloading during afternoon hours, so that would be possible to place the solar generator source of up to 1 MWp to overlap this. The Interplan® software was used to simulate the impact in technical losses. It was possible to observe a reduction of up to 33.12% in technical energy losses due to the insertion of distributed generation.