A hybrid evolutionary approach for multi-objective unit commitment problem in power systems

Abstract

The operating strategy of the power system is changing from the minimum cost to the minimum cost with a minimum emission approach as a result of growing worries about global warming and environmental change brought on by the combustion of fossil fuels. The generating scheduling problem becomes a multi-objective one as a result of the economic and emission objectives' inherent conflict. In this study, a multi-objective whale-differential evolution-genetic algorithm (WODEGA) is employed to produce an optimal solution that illustrates a potential trade-off between the unit commitment (UC) problem's emission and cost objectives. The environmental and economic dispatch problem with system and unit constraints is solved using the multi-objective WODEGA method. Main goal of research is to explore the problem of unit commitment and sub-problem of unit commitment i.e. economic dispatch.