National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61203311, No.61105064);Research Project of Education Department of Shaanxi Province (No.2013JK1183, No.2014JK1667);Xiamen Science and Technology Plan Project (No.3502Z20141164)
Dynamic economic dispatch (DED) is a multi-stage decision problem with space and time coupling.In order to get the global optimal solution
a DED problem generally has been transformed into a high-dimensional constrained numerical optimization problem to solve.In this study
a novel global optimization algorithm
cluster evolutionary algorithm (CEA)
is proposed to solve DED problem.In CEA
a virtual cluster organization is constructed among individuals so as to dynamically adjust the searching process of simulated evolutionary system while improving the optimization efficiency of population.In simulations
CEA is applied to 2 DED testing systems for verifying its feasibility.Meanwhile
a comparative study is carried out with other existing methods.Results clarify the significance of the proposed algorithm and verify its performance.Considering the quality of the solution obtained
CEA seems to be a promising alternative approach for solving the DED problem.