A REFINED SOLUTION TO CLASSICAL UNIT COMMITMENT PROBLEM USING IWO ALGORITHM

This paper proposes a solution to effectively determine Unit Commitment and generation cost using the technique of Invasive Weed Optimization (IWO).The objective of this paper is to find the generation scheduling such that the total operating cost can be minimized, when subjected to variety of constraints. This also means that finding the optimal generating unit commitment in the power system for the next H hours is desirable. The different constraints considered in this technique are the time constraint and spinning reserve constraint. The result obtained from this is to be compared with the already existing result of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for an 8 hour 4 unit IEEE system and 24 hour 10 unit IEEE system