The proposed approach is on the optimal planning issue of photovoltaic distributed generation (PV-DG) and DSTATCOM device with integrated battery energy storage systems (BESS) considering network reconfiguration by applying hybrid Grey-Wolf crow-search algorithm (GWO-CSA) encompassing dynamic fuzzy learning (DFL) optimization technique. Considering the stochastic nature of solar irradiance and variations, when solar energy is inadequate, BESS acts as backup energy storage device to meet essential load requirements. Network reconfiguration is to reduce power loss by changing the network tie switches using optimization algorithm. The principal objective of the proposed research work is to reduce the total power loss, enhance the voltage profile, improve the voltage stability index, and perform network reliability analysis. The beneficial effect of the proposed method is validated on Standard IEEE 69 and Standard 118 bus systems. It found that for the IEEE 69 bus system, the overall Real power loss values decreased to 12.82% and overall Reactive power loss increased to 78.18%. The total voltage deviation index (TTVDI), and total voltage stability index (TTVSI) values decreased to 17.94% and − 0.75% respectively. The reliability indices like SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI, CAIFI, and AENS values decreased by 56%, 3.54%, − 3.09%, 0.55% and 30% respectively. Similarly, for IEEE 118 bus system overall Real power loss, overall Reactive power loss, TTVDI, and TTVSI decreased to 9.53%, − 0.11%, 24.64%, and 3.87%. The reliability indices like SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI, CAIFI, and AENS values decreased by 2.4%, 1.0%, 1.54%, 0.94%, and 10.1% respectively. Further, the proposed approach of DFL-based hybrid GWO-CSA considers the reconfiguration with PV-DG, DSTATCOM and BESS enhances the overall performance compared to other scenarios.