Purpose: Generation scheduling (GS) is the most prominent and hard-hitting problem in the electrical power industry especially in an integrated power system. Countless techniques have been used so far to solve this GS problem for proper functioning of the units in the power system to dispatch...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve commitment problem of generating units in thermal power plants and to find the optimal dispatches of the committed units. Design/methodology/approach – The unit commitment (UC) problem has been solved in two stages. In the first stage, the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve the maintenance management problems of generating units under the reliability criterion. Design/methodology/approach – The problem has been formulated as a combinatorial optimization task, with explicit and simultaneous treatment of multiple...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve the optimal power dispatch problem of thermal generating units with cubic fuel cost and emission functions. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed Simplified Direct Search Method (SDSM) is developed from the Direct Search Method (DSM) that...