Optimal renewable-integrated economic load dispatch for a large-scale power system using One-to-One Optimization Algorithm

Abstract

This study presents the application of a new meta-heuristic algorithm called One-to-One optimization algorithm (OOBO) for solving the renewable-integrated economic load dispatch problem (RI-ELD) with consideration of both wind and solar power plants. The whole study focuses on minimizing the overall expenses of fuel (OEF) for all thermal electric power plants (TEPPs). The considered power system consists of twenty TEPPs with different working limits. OOBO is applied to solve the given problem in three cases of load demand level, including 2500, 2600, and 2700 MW. The results achieved by OOBO in the three cases are compared with other meta-heuristic algorithms called Coati optimization algorithm (COA) in the four aspects, such as Best OEF (Bst.OEF), Average OEF (Aver.OEF), Maximum OEF (Max.OEF). OOBO not only outperforms COA in all comparison aspects but also provides faster convergence speed to the optimal values of OEF at all three cases of load demand. Moreover, OOBO shows its surprising stability over COA regardless of the increase of load demand in Case 2 and Case 3. By observing these results, OOBO deserved the highly effective search tool for solving the large-scale and highly complex RI-ELD problem.