To achieve more precise and regionally adaptive emission control, this study develops a dual-control framework that simultaneously constrains both total carbon emissions and pollutant concentration levels. Regional environmental heterogeneity is inco...
This work tackles a relatively new issue in power system operation, known as the Environmental/Economic Dispatch problem. For this purpose, the combination of two powerful heuristic algorithms, namely, the Exchange Market Algorithm (EMA) and Adaptive...
In this paper, the dynamic combined economic environmental dispatch problems (DCEED) with variable real transmission losses are tackled using four metaheuristics techniques. Due to the consideration of the valve-point loading effects (VPE), DCEED hav...
Power to gas facilities (P2G) could absorb excess renewable energy that would otherwise be curtailed due to electricity network constraints by converting it to methane (synthetic natural gas). The produced synthetic natural gas can power gas turbines...
This paper addresses the economic–environmental dispatch (EED) problem in DC power grids integrating thermoelectric and photovoltaic generation. A multi-objective optimization model is developed to minimize both fuel costs and CO2 emissions whi...
This paper presents a multi-objective economic-environmental dispatch (MOEED) model for integrated thermal, natural gas, and renewable energy systems considering both pollutant emission levels and total fuel or generation cost aspects. Two cases are...
The traditional power grid planning lacks consideration of the uncertainty and correlation between wind and solar joint output in the same region, which poses challenges to the stable operation of the power system. Therefore, it is greatly important...
The renewable energy sources (RESs)-based economic dispatch problem (EDP) is of vital importance for modern power systems. Environmental pollution, climatic degradation, and rapidly growing prices of continuously depleting fossil fuels have encourage...
The environmental/economic dispatch (EED) of power systems addresses the environmental pollution problems caused by power generation at the operational level, offering macroscopic control without requiring additional construction and remediation cost...
The use of renewable energy sources (RESs) is increasing every day to meet increasing energy demands and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. When designing hybrid renewable energy systems (HRESs), it is necessary to examine their technical, economic,...
In the power system, economic power dispatch is a popular and fundamental optimization problem. In its classical form, this problem only considers thermal generators and does not take into account network security constraints. However, other forms of...
For the suggested site in the Maldives, this research paper analyzes the possibility of a hybrid renewable microgrid that is dispatch strategy-governed in both off-grid and on-grid scenarios. The planned microgrid’s techno-environmental-economi...
Thermal power plants use coal as a fuel to create electricity while wasting a significant amount of energy as heat. If the heat and power plants are combined and used in cogeneration systems, it is possible to reuse the waste heat and hence enhance t...
This work presents a model for solving the Economic-Environmental Dispatch (EED) challenge, which addresses the integration of thermal, renewable energy schemes, and natural gas (NG) units, that consider both toxin emission and fuel costs as its prim...
What China committed in the Paris Agreement encourages the penetration of renewable energy in power grid. To consume more renewable energy, coal-fired units undertake the most part of peak shaving task and are usually operated at a low-load level dur...
Electric arc furnace technology is a key factor in the sustainable transformation of the iron and steel industry. This study compares two discrete-time multi-objective optimization models—integer and mixed-integer linear programming—that...
As the low-carbon economy continues to expand, wind power, as one form of clean energy, promotes the low-carbon power development process. In this paper, a multi-objective environmental economic dispatch (EED) model is proposed considering multiple u...
With the widespread use of fossil fuels, the Earth’s environment is facing a severe threat of degradation. Traditional large-scale power grids have struggled to meet the ever-growing demands of modern society. The implementation and functioning...
This paper proposes an economical-environmental-technical dispatch (EETD) model for adjusted IEEE 30-bus and IEEE 57-bus systems, including thermal and high penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs). Total fuel costs, emissions level, power loss...
This paper presents the optimization of fuel cost, emission of NOX, COX, and SOX gases caused by the generators in a thermal power plant using penalty factor approach. Practical constraints such as generator limits and power balance were considered....
As a high-quality secondary energy, hydrogen energy has great potential in energy storage and utilization. The development of power-to-hydrogen (P2H) technology has alleviated the problem of wind curtailment and improved the coupling between the powe...
The fundamental objective of economic load dispatch is to operate the available generating units such that the needed load demand satisfies the lowest generation cost and also complies with the various constraints. With proper power system operation...
Traditionally, the Economic Dispatch Model (EDM) integrating Combined Heat and Power (CHP) units aims to reduce fuel costs by managing power-only, CHP, and heat-only units. Today, reducing pollutant emissions to the environment is of paramount concer...
Multi-objective power scheduling (MOPS) aims to address the simultaneous minimization of economic costs and different types of environmental emissions during electricity generation. Recognizing it as an NP-hard problem, this article proposes a novel...
Most power is generated using fossil fuels like coal, natural gas, and diesel. The contribution of coal to power generation is very high compared to other sources. Almost all thermal power plants use coal as a fuel for power generation. Such sources...
The low carbon transition requires the high growth of renewable generation penetration in energy systems to ultimately achieve net-zero carbon target. To ensure the reliable operation of energy systems with high intermittent renewable output, it is c...
This study investigates the multi-objective optimization of load dispatch of a solar-assisted coal-fired power generation system. The improved environmental/economic load dispatch model considers coal consumption, NOx emissions, and power purchase co...
To facilitate power system decarbonization, optimizing clean energy integration has emerged as a critical pathway for establishing sustainable power infrastructure. This study addresses the multi-timescale operational challenges inherent in power net...
Conventional environmental-economic power dispatch methods constrain the total amount of emissions of power plants, and they succeed in reducing emissions from the power sector. However, they fail to address the mismatch between emission reductions a...
This paper introduces the “Energy-Environmental Efficiency” concept of building a low-carbon dispatch model of wind-incorporated power systems from the perspective of environmental protection and low-carbon dispatch promotion based on the existing ec...
This paper proposes a multi-objective load dispatch algorithm based on economic predictive control to solve the real-time multi-objective load dispatch problem of biomass heat and power cogeneration. According to the energy conservation law and produ...
As fossil energy is increasingly depleted, promoting the integration of renewable energy into the grid and improving its utilization rate has become an irresistible development trend in China’s power industry. However, the volatility of wind po...
Economic dispatch using wind power plants plays a role in reducing the price of electricity production by dispatching power among different generating units for thermal and wind power plants, and supplying load demand while meeting the power system e...
As the global reliance on renewable energy sources grows, wind and photovoltaic power, as pivotal components, pose significant challenges to power system dispatch due to their volatility and uncertainty. To effectively address this challenge, this pa...
The economic power-dispatching model of a multi-microgrid is comprehensively established in this paper, considering many factors, such as generation cost, discharge cost, power-purchase cost, power sales revenue, and environmental cost. To construct...
Fossil fuel is considered to be the primary power generation source. As this source is not that eco- and environmentally friendly, researchers are constantly searching for an alternative source for power generation. Renewable energy has drawn much at...
Environmental protection pressures and green energy strategies have created major challenges for a cleaner production of China’s coal-fired power generation. Although China’s electric power dispatching department has tried to prioritize c...
As the global energy structure undergoes transformation and the low-carbon development process continues to advance, integrated energy systems have progressively emerged as crucial technical support for achieving sustainable development. In this pape...
To address the issue of economic dispatch imbalance in virtual power plant (VPP) systems caused by the influence of operators and distribution networks, this study introduces an optimized economic dispatch method based on bi-level game theory. Firstl...
Economic dispatch (ED) attempts to find the most cost-effective combination of power generation units while meeting operational constraints. Another problem that can’t be resolved by standard economic dispatch problems is figuring out the metho...
Due to the rapid increase in the consumption of electrical energy and the instability of fossil fuel prices, renewable energy, such as wind power (WP), has become increasingly economically competitive compared to other conventional energy production...
In order to reduce the pollution caused by coal-fired generating units during the heating season, and promote the wind power accommodation, an electrical and thermal system dispatch model based on combined heat and power (CHP) with thermal energy sto...
A low-carbon economic optimization dispatch model of integrated energy system is proposed to improve the low-carbon and economic efficiency of the integrated energy systems. Firstly, the waste heat generator with the organic Rankine cycle is introduc...
Due to the importance that organizations and governments have placed on environmental pollution and the policies that force organizations to comply with environmental standards, the use of renewable energy sources to meet energy requirements becomes...
With the rapid development of the new concept of energy internet, electric power systems often need to be investigated together with thermal energy systems. Additionally, to reduce pollution from gas emissions, it is very important to study the econo...
This work presents the operation of an autonomous direct current (DC) DC microgrid for residential house controlled by an energy management system based on low complexity fuzzy logic controller of only 25-rules to manage the power flow that supply ho...
In China, with the increasing permeability of wind power, the power supply capacity is enough overall, but has shortage in partial-time. During peak hours, the capability of wind power consumption is poor and the power balance becomes more difficult....
Environmental and economic needs drive the increased penetration of intermittent renewable energy in electricity grids, enhancing uncertainty in the prediction of market conditions and network constraints. Thereafter, the importance of energy systems...
This paper proposes an improved Bacterial Foraging Optimization for economically optimal dispatching of the microgrid. Three optimized steps are presented to solve the slow convergence, poor precision, and low efficiency of traditional Bacterial Fora...
Addressing the imperative for energy transition amid depleting fossil fuels, distributed generation (DG) is increasingly integrated into distribution networks (DNs). This integration necessitates low-carbon dispatching solutions that reconcile econom...
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