Abstract
The introduction of renewable energy sources into the grid network as reported by various literatures contributes to the deterioration of the frequency stability, harmonics, and power factor. The growing number of installations of renewable energy sources, particularly photovoltaic systems into the grid network calls for a concern to investigate to what level does the photovoltaic systems impact the power factor. The dissertation conducted a literature review on recent approaches that have been deployed to correct a poor power factor and recommended appropriate power factor correction strategies. Analysis of the results indicated that the introduction of the photovoltaic system results to reduced active power consumption from the grid but the demand of reactive power remained the same as before the photovoltaic system was introduced. This occurrence leads to the deterioration of the power factor, which has financial and technical implications.