Abstract—In this paper, a self-adaptive differential evolution
algorithm (SaDEA) is proposed for solving conventional
economic dispatch (ED) problem with transmission losses
consideration. The purpose of ED problem is to minimize the
total fuel cost of thermal power plants associated with the
technical operation and economical constraints. The software
development has been performed within the mathematical
programming environment of MATLAB in this work. The
efficiency of the proposed methodology is initially demonstrated
via the analysis of IEEE 30-bus test case. A detailed comparative
study among Lambda iteration, conventional genetic algorithm
(CGA), tabu search/simulated annealing (TS/SA), ant colony
search algorithm (ACSA) and the proposed method is presented.
From the experimental results, the proposed method has
achieved solutions with good accuracy, stable convergence
characteristics, simple implementation and satisfactory
computational time.