This document presents a new approach to solving the economic dispatch problem using particle swarm optimization combined with simulated annealing (PSO-SA). The economic dispatch problem aims to minimize the total generation cost while satisfying constraints like power demand and generator limits. Previous solutions had limitations. The authors propose using PSO-SA to find high quality solutions more efficiently. PSO is able to find global optima but can get trapped in local optima. SA helps avoid this through probabilistic jumping. The authors combine PSO and SA techniques to leverage their benefits while overcoming individual limitations. They test the PSO-SA method on three generator systems and find it provides better results than traditional and other computational methods.
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