ABSTRACT
Economical Load Dispatch (ELD) is an imperative aspect in power system operations, controls and scheduling. Convex and Non-Convex economical load dispatch can be resolved by using classified based techniques and various soft computing techniques. This paper presents the Group Leader Optimization technique algorithm to solve ELD for minimizing the fuel cost of power generation with valve point loading used as constraint. Group Leader Optimization Algorithm (GLOA) is recent and efficient technique in optimization domain. Mathematical formulation-based simulation proves the efficiency, quality of solution. The mathematical formulation can successfully optimize ELD problems. Finally, from the simulation results it has been concluded that the proposed technique has given improved results than existing optimization techniques. Numerical results are provided in the paper to verify implementation of GLOA on ELD.
