Solving the Environmental Economic Dispatch Problem using Whale Optimization Algorithm

Abstract

In this work, the Whale Optimization Algorithm method used to solve the Environmental Economic Dispatch Problem. The performance of the used algorithm is substantiated using standard test system of three thermal generating units. The proposed algorithm produced optimum or near optimum solutions. The obtained results in this study using the Whale Optimization Algorithm are compared with the obtained results using other intelligent methods such as Particle Swarm Optimization, Simple Genetic Algorithm and Genetic Algorithm. The comparison demonstrated the obtained results in this research are close to these obtained using the above revealed approaches.