Solving Bid-Based Dynamic Economic Dispatch in Competitive Electricity Market Using Improved Simulated Annealing Algorithm

Abstract

Electricity markets are open after the deregulation of power systems due to competition. An optimization problem based on dynamic economic dispatch has recently come up in the new context of deregulated power systems known as bid-based dynamic economic dispatch (BBDED). It is one of the major operations and control functions in the electricity markets used to determine the optimal operations of market participants with scheduled load demands during a specified period. BBDED involves power generation companies (GENCOs) and customers to submit energy and price bids to the independent system operator (ISO) in a day-ahead market. The ISO clears the market with the objective of social profit maximization. In this paper, a BBDED problem is solved using an improved simulated annealing algorithm (ISA), including system constraints with different periods under bidding strategies. The proposed ISA technique is implemented in MATLAB and applied on a 3-unit system, a 6-unit system, and a 40-unit large-scale system. The proposed ISA is evaluated by comparison with relevant methods available in the literature, to demonstrate and confirm its potential in terms of convergence, robustness, and effectiveness for solving the BBDED problem.