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Abstract : The utilization of electrical appliances all over the world has been increased, which thereby increases the consumption of electricity. For ensuring the continuity in power supply, distributed generators (DG) play a vital role and are placed in parallel with the system. The important factor that influences the DG which is inappropriate placement which may increase the energy losses. The placement of the DG should be done so that the losses are reduced, and the consumer is benefited. With respect to that, an objective function is designed for which the consumer benefits are maximized. For knowing the optimal placement and customer benefit maximization, load flow analysis has been performed with two conventional methods like fast decoupled and newton Raphson load flow analysis. A comparative study has been done to put forth the best load flow method for locating the DG at the optimum position. The factors like the optimum size, optimum placement, voltage deviation index are analyzed from the aforementioned analysis, which thereby reduces the energy losses and maximizes the customer benefit for the placement of the DG. The whole analysis is done for IEEE 14 bus system and is evaluated in MATLAB software.