Unit commitment (UC) is a key operational problem in power systems used to determine an optimal daily or weekly generation commitment schedule. Incorporating uncertainty in this already difficult mixed-integer optimization problem introduces significant computational challenges. Most existing stochastic UC models consider either a two-stage decision structure, where the commitment schedule for ...

This paper provides the convex hull description for the following basic operating constraints of a single power generation unit in Unit Commitment (UC) problems: 1) generation limits, 2) startup and shutdown capabilities, and 3) minimum up and down times. Although the model does not consider some crucial constraints, such as ramping, the proposed constraints can be used as the core of any UC fo...

In this paper, a new method to review the role of wind units as an energy-producer in the scheduling problem of unit commitment is presented. Today, renewable energy sources due to lack of environmental pollution, absence of dependence on fossil fuels, and consequently a very low marginal cost, have been receiving considerable attention in power system. But these sources are associated with unc...

Classic unit commitment (UC) is an important and exciting task of distributing generated power among the committed units subject to several constraints over a scheduled time horizon to obtain the minimum generation cost. Large integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in modern power system makes generation planning more complex. This paper presents the individual and collective impact...

The Unit Commitment problem (UC) is a complex mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem, so the main challenge faced by many researchers obtaining optimal solution. Therefore, this dissertation proposes new methodology combining multi-dimensional firefly algorithm with local search called LS-MFA and utilizes it to solve UC problem. In addition, adaptive adjustment, tolerance mechanism, pit-ju...

Unit commitment(UC)is used to determine the system optimization problem in the operation of the generating unit at each and every hour interval varying load under different constraints and environments. In UC problem still researchers are working in this field to found new or hybrid algorithm to make the problem more realistic. The importance of UC is increasing with the constantly varying dema...

Unit commitment (UC) problem tries to schedule output power of generation units to meet the system demand for the next several hours at minimum cost. UC adds a time dimension to the economic dispatch problem with the additional choice of turning generators to be on or off.  In this paper, in order to improve both the exploitation and exploration abilities of the firefly algorithm (FA), a new mo...

The study of unit commitment (UC) aims to find reasonable schedules for generators to optimize power systems’ operation. Many papers have been published that solve UC through different methods. Articles that systematically summarize UC problems’ progress in order to update researchers interested in this field are needed. Because of its promising performance, stochastic programming (SP) has beco...

This paper presents and identifies alternative strategies with the advantages of Genetic Algorithm for solving the Thermal Unit Commitment (UC) problem. A Parallel Structure has been developed to handle the infeasibility problem in a structured and improved Genetic Algorithm (GA) which provides an effective search and therefore greater economy. In addition, this proposed method lead us to obtai...

An algorithm to solve security constrained unit commitment problem (UCP) with both operational and power flow constraints (PFC) have been proposed to plan a secure and economical hourly generation schedule. This proposed algorithm introduces an efficient unit commitment (UC) approach with PFC that obtains the minimum system operating cost satisfying both unit and network constraints when contin...