the new competitive environment changes the paradigm of power system operation. in the transmission area, open access process provides fair accessibility for all market participants. congestion management is one of the most important side effects of this new process. this paper proposes a new approach for congestion management which is based on both active and reactive re-dispatch of the networ...

The feasibility, cost, and air quality impacts of using electrical grids to shift water use from drought-stricken regions to areas with more water availability were examined. Power plant cooling represents a large portion of freshwater withdrawals in the United States, and shifting where electricity generation occurs can allow the grid to act as a virtual water pipeline, increasing water availa...

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...

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...

Using results from parametric optimization, we derive for chance-constrained stochastic programs quantitative stability properties for locally optimal values and sets of local minimizers when the underlying probability distribution is subjected to perturbations in a metric space of probability measures. Emphasis is placed on verifiable sufficient conditions for the constraint-set mapping to ful...

This paper presents a Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm for solving the Environmental/Economic Dispatch Problem (EED). This problem is formulated as a multi-objective one with two competing functions, namely economic cost and emission functions, subject to different constraints. The inequality constraints considered are maximum and minimum limits of power generation while the equality constrai...

This paper presents the solution of power economic dispatch (PED) problem of generating units with valve point effects and multiple fuel options using Self-Adaptive Differential Evolution (SDE) algorithm. The global optimal solution by mathematical approaches becomes difficult for the realistic PED problem in power systems. The Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm is found to be a powerful evo...

Optimal load dispatch is the short-term decision of the optimal output of a number of power generation facilities, to meet the system demand, with the objective of load dispatching at the lowest possible cost, subject to transmission lines power loss and operational constraints. The operational constraint includes power balance constraint, generator limit constraint and emission dispatch constr...