Economic dispatch (ED) has been considered to be one of the key functions in electric power system operation which can help to build up effective generating management plans. The practical ED problem has non-smooth cost function with nonlinear constraints which make it difficult to be effectively solved. This paper presents a novel heuristic and efficient optimization approach based on the new ...

Dynamic Economic Dispatch (DED) plays a vital role in power generation, operation and control. It is a complicated, non-linear constrained problem. In this paper, Maclaurin series based Lagrangian method (MSL) is used to solve the DED problem for generating units with valve-point effect, considering the ramp rate limits. Using Maclaurin series, the sine term used to model the valve-point effect...

This paper presents the application of Water Wave Optimization Algorithm (WWOA) for solving economic dispatch problems including practical generator constraints. WWOA is inspired by the shallow water wave theory. The efficiency of the WWO Algorithm for solving economic dispatch problems is demonstrated by implementing it on three test systems having three, six and fifteen generating units with ...

Abstract: The economic dispatch has the objective of generation allocation to the power generators in such a way that the total fuel cost is minimized while all operating constraints are satisfied. The schematic methods assume the cost curves of generators are linear but in case of modern generators this assumption makes inaccuracy in economic dispatch because of valve point loading effect, pro...

This paper introduces the “Energy-Environmental Efficiency” concept of building a low-carbon dispatch model of wind-incorporated power systems from the perspective of environmental protection and low-carbon dispatch promotion based on the existing economic environmental dispatch. A rolling auto-regressive and moving-average model is adopted to forecast wind speeds for the next 24 h and reduce t...

This paper presents a review of the achievements of the optimal power dynamic dispatch problem since its inception to the present. There exist two formulations for this problem in the literature. The first formulation is the optimal control dynamic dispatch (OCDD), where the power system generation has been modelled as a control system and optimization is done in the optimal control setting wit...

Combined heat, and power dispatch promotes interactions, synergies between electric systems, district heating systems. However, nonlinear, nonconvex flow imposes significant challenges on finding qualified solutions efficiently. Most existing methods rely constant assumptions to derive a linear model, sacrificing optimality for computational simplicity. This paper proposes novel convex combined...

In the electric power systems, there is a wide range of problems involving optimization processes. Among them, Economic Dispatch (ED) is one of the most important problems in the operation and management. Recently, modern meta-heuristic algorithms have been considered as effective tools for nonlinear optimization problems with applications to power systems scheduling. PSO is one of modern heuri...

The growing costs of fuel and operation of power generating units warrant improvement of optimization methodologies for economic dispatch (ED) problems. The practical ED problems have non-convex objective functions with equality and inequality constraints that make it much harder to find the global optimum using any mathematical algorithms. Modern optimization algorithms are often meta-heuristi...