Joint economic and emission load dispatch for the Algerian grid via an improved harmony search algorithm

Abstract

Renewable energy sources (RES) have been very popular as they reduce the release of damaging toxins to the air contrary to fossil fuel combustion. The economic load dispatch (ELD) issue looks for the optimal dimensioning of the RES to lessen the fuel cost while Emission Dispatch (ED) is concerned with the best dimensioning of the RESs to decrease the quantity of the produced pollutants. A multi-purpose Joint Economic-Emission Dispatch (JEED) seeks the best RES dimensioning by compromising the fuel fee and toxin release simultaneously. In this paper, a JEED problem is solved for a ten-unit Algerian Network using a recent optimization algorithm named Improved Harmony Search Algorithm (IHSA). The obtained results suggest that the considered JEED problem proves to be more practical than when ELD and ED are dealt with separately. Also, an enhancement in terms of economic and emission dispatch is obtained for the considered case. This work also witnesses on the superiority of the IHSA over state of art approaches