Comprehensive Survey of Optimization Techniqu...

Comprehensive Survey of Optimization Techniques in Power System Unit Commitment

Author Name : Gaurav Rohilla, Rajesh Dudi,

ABSTRACT

In fact, the problem of Unit Commitment is a complicated decision making operation on account of various operational constraints affecting the economical scheduling of units in an electrical power system. These constraints could not be violated while determining the optimal or near optimal commitment schedule. As the dynamics of technology change rapidly in the power industry, new methodologies and the enhanced version of existing approaches addressing these new technologies are flowing into the market. So there is an urgent need to keep a track of new techniques and the latest version of current algorithms used in the field of today’s unit commitment problems. Some methods are focusing on speed and others on accuracy. There is always a tradeoff among parameters in different techniques to minimize the total cost and maximize the profit.