This paper presents an Artificial Immune-based optimization technique for solving the economic dispatch problem in a power system. The main role of electrical power utility is to ensure that electrical energy requirement from the customer is served. However in doing so, the power utility has also to ensure that the electrical power is generated with minimum cost. Hence, for economic operation o...

The main objective of Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) problem is to schedule the connecting generating units of plant outputs, so as to fulfill load demands at minimum operating costs while satisfying all operational constraints. Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) is one of an important optimization tasks which provides an economic condition for power systems. Recently Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) ...

In recent years, soft computing methods have generated a large research interest. The synthesis of the fuzzy logic and the evolutionary algorithms is one of these methods. A particular evolutionary algorithm (EA) is differential evolution (DE). As for any EA, DE algorithm also requires parameters tuning to achieve desirable performance. In this paper tuning the perturbation factor vector of DE ...

In recent years, soft computing methods have generated a large research interest. The synthesis of the fuzzy logic and the evolutionary algorithms is one of these methods. A particular evolutionary algorithm (EA) is differential evolution (DE). As for any EA, DE algorithm also requires parameters tuning to achieve desirable performance. In this paper tuning the perturbation factor vector of DE ...

This paper presents a gravitational search algorithm (GSA) for solving the combined economic and emission dispatch (CEED) problem in power systems. Numerical results for the standard IEEE 30-bus six-generator test system have been presented to illustrate the performance and applicability of the proposed approach. The results obtained are compared to those reported in the recent literature. Thos...

During the microgrid search process, optimal allocation and economic dispatch are very important and are interrelated, having interaction and mutual checks. In this paper, we adopt a bilevel planning method to search for the multi-objective optimal allocation of a microgrid, considering economic dispatch. The upper level is the optimal allocation, which aims at minimizing the daily fixed cost o...

Ensuring a smooth electrical energy to the consumer has been identified as the main role of electric supply utility. The power utility needs to ensure that the electrical power is generated with minimum cost. Hence, for economic operation of the system, the total demand must be appropriately shared among the generating units with an objective to minimize the total generation cost for the system...

Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) problem in power systems has been solved by various optimization methods in the recent years, for efficient and reliable power production. This paper introduces a solution to ELD problem using a new metaheuristic nature-inspired algorithm called Firefly Algorithm (FFA). The proposed approach has been applied to various test systems. The results proved the efficiency...