Application of the Firefly Algorithm for Solving the Economic Emissions Load Dispatch Problem

Table 1

Generator cost, emission, and capacities coefficients of the test problem we will solve with the firefly algorithm.

		G1	G2	G3	G4	G5	G6
cost	a	100	120	40	60	40	100
	b	200	150	180	100	180	150
	c	10	10	20	10	20	10
emission	α	4.091	2.543	4.258	5.326	4.258	6.131
	β	−5.554	−6.047	−5.094	−3.55	−5.094	−5.555
	γ	6.490	5.638	4.586	3.38	4.586	5.151
	ζ	2𝑒−4	5𝑒−4	1𝑒−6	2𝑒−3	1𝑒−6	1𝑒−5
	λ	2.857	3.333	8	2	8	6.667
power	𝑃min	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
	𝑃max	0.5	0.6	1.0	1.2	1.0	0.6