OPTIMAL ECONOMIC LOAD DISPATCH USING FUZZY LOGIC & GENETIC ALGORITHMS

Many traditional optimization methods have been successfully used from years to deal with ELD problem. However these techniques have limitations in many aspects as they provide inaccurate results. The objective is to minimize total fuel cost of power generation so as to meet the power demands to satisfy all constraints. In present paper, the parameters of the fuzzy logic are tuned using genetic algorithms. By using GA with fuzzy logic leads to an intelligent dimension for ELD solution space to obtain an optimum solution for ELD.