Economic emission dispatch problems with stochastic wind power using summation based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm

In recent years, renewable energy sources such as wind energy have been used as one of the most effective ways to reduce pollution emissions. In this paper, a summation based multi-objective differential evolution (SMODE) algorithm is used to optimize the economic emission dispatch problem with stochastic wind power. The Weibull probability distribution function is used to model the stochastic nature of the wind power and the uncertainty is treated as the system constraints with stochastic variables. The algorithm is integrated with the superiority of feasible solution constraint handling technique. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, the standard IEEE 30-bus 6-generator test system with wind power (with/without considering losses) is studied with fuel cost and emission as two conflicting objectives to be optimized at the same time. Besides, a larger 40-generator system with wind farms is also solved by the proposed method. The results generated by SMODE are compared with those obtained using NSGAII as well as a number of techniques reported in literature. The results reveal that SMODE generates superior and consistent solutions. © 2016 Published by Elsevier Inc.