• DocumentCode
    1299457
  • Title

    Unit commitment by tabu search

  • Author

    Mantawy, A.H. ; Abdel-Magid, Y.L. ; Selim, S.Z.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., King Fahd Univ. of Pet. & Miner., Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
  • Volume
    145
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    1/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    56
  • Lastpage
    64
  • Abstract
    An application of the tabu search (TS) method to solve the unit commitment problem (UCP) is presented. The TS seeks to counter the danger of entrapment at a local optimum by incorporating a memory structure that forbids or penalises certain moves that would return to recently visited solutions. New rules for randomly generating feasible solutions for the UCP are introduced. The problem is divided into two subproblems: a combinatorial optimisation problem and a nonlinear programming problem. The former is solved using the tabu search algorithm (TSA) while the latter problem is solved via a quadratic programming routine. Numerical results show an improvement in the solution cost compared to previously obtained results
  • Keywords
    power system planning; combinatorial optimisation problem; nonlinear programming problem; power system unit commitment; quadratic programming routine; tabu search algorithm;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Generation, Transmission and Distribution, IEE Proceedings-
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    1350-2360
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/ip-gtd:19981681
  • Filename
    654424