Shading of photovoltaic panels is one of the most prevalent causes of power decrease. A partial shading condition (PSC) creates multiple distinctive peaks in the power-voltage (P-V) curve. Reconfiguration distributes partial shade on a complete array. It reduces the mismatch power losses and boosts the power generation of the solar photovoltaic (SPV) array. This paper proposes a novel static PV array reconfiguration method named the novel shade distribution (NSD). The performance of the proposed method has been evaluated and compared with the best conventional total-cross-tide (TCT) method and available reconfiguration(AR) methods, sudoku (SK), optimal sudoku (OSK), and zig-zag (ZZ). The performance has been investigated under eight partial shading conditions with five performance evaluation parameters. This paper validates the performance of the proposed method through MATLAB/Simulink and hardware experimentation.