Abstract—In this paper, a new genetic approach based on arithmetic crossover for solving the economic dispatch problem is proposed

This paper presents a new genetic approach based on arithmetic crossover for solving the economic dispatch and environmentally constrained economic dispatch problems. Elitism, arithmetic crossover and mutation are used in the genetic algorithm to generate successive sets of possible operating policies. The proposed technique improves the quality of the solution. The employed arithmetic crossover operation takes the real values presented by two individuals and produced new generation on the basis of the arithmetic mean. For economic dispatch problem, the new genetic approach is compared with an improved Hopfield NN approach (IHN) [1], a fuzzy logic controlled genetic algorithm (FLCGA) [2], an advance engineered-conditioning genetic approach (AECGA) [3] and an advance Hopfield NN approach (AHNN) [4]. The results of the proposed approach for environmentally economic dispatch are compared with the results of the Taboo Search (TS) [5], the Hopfield NN [5] and a neural networks approach [6].