Solution to non-convex economic dispatch problem with valve point effects by incremental artificial bee colony with local search

In literature, economic power dispatch problems are generally categorized as convex and non-convex optimization problems. In this study, incremental artificial bee colony (IABC) and incremental artificial bee colony with local search (IABC-LS) have been used for the solution of the economic dispatch problem with valve point effect. In these kind of problems, fuel cost curve increases as sinusoidal oscillations. In the solution of the problem B loss matrix has been used for the calculation of the line losses. Total fuel cost has been minimized under electrical constraints. IABC and IABC-LS methods have been applied to four different test systems one with 6 buses 3 generators, the other with 14 buses 5 generators (IEEE), the third one with 30 buses 6 generators (IEEE) and the last one is 40-generator system. The obtained best values have been compared with different methods in literature and the results of them have been discussed. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.