Evolutionary Programming Solution of Economic Dispatch with Valve Point Loading

This paper describes an application of evolutionary programming (EP) to economic dispatch with valve point loading.Some technical problems (representations of candidate solutions,evaluation function,mutation operator) have been solved to expand the applica be prospects of the computatimal methods of economic dispatch.The proposal method is applied to a 6 bus 3 generator system and compared with the genetic algorithm(GA).Numerical results demonstrate the validity and effectiveness.