Application of Intelligent Algorithms to Interruptible Load Dispatch Model

Abstract

Interruptible load management plays an important role in maintaining the reliability and security of power systems and reducing price spike of power markets, thus has been widely used in power systems. Interruptible loads dispatch problem with multi-period and multi-interruptible-load is usually a multi-objective, combinatorial optimization problem, and its solution method needs to be carefully investigated. Application of intelligent optimization algorithms to the multi-period interruptible load dispatch problem is discussed in this paper. Multi objectives, such as minimizing the interruption payments and interruption frequency, can be included in the proposed interruptible load dispatch model. The characteristics of different interruptible loads are also considered. Numerical simulations using discrete binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO) and the genetic algorithm (GA) show that the BPSO can obtain better solutions than that of the GA. Thus the BPSO presents better potentials in solving the interruptible load dispatch problem.