Artificial bee colony optimization for economic dispatch with valve point effect

Abstract

In recent years, various heuristic optimization methods have been proposed to solve economic dispatch (ED) problem in power systems. This paper presents the well-known power system ED problem solution considering valve-point effect by a new optimization algorithm called artificial bee colony (ABC). The proposed approach has been applied to various test systems with incremental fuel cost function, taking into account the valve-point effects. The results show that the proposed approach is efficient and robust when compared with other optimization algorithms reported in literature.

Key words： artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm; economic dispatch (ED); valve-point effect; optimization

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