A Memetic Approach for Improving Minimum Cost of Economic Load Dispatch Problems

Table 1

Minimum costs of ELD problem from three different algorithms.

Number	Generation (MW)			Cost ($)
	HS	FA	HMBO	HS	FA	HMBO
1	110.8312	110.8099	110.8018	925.6191	925.2642	925.1296
2	110.8234	110.8059	110.8000	925.4891	925.1976	925.0998
3	97.3999	97.4023	97.3999	1190.5485	1190.5949	1190.5485
4	179.7331	179.7332	179.7331	2143.5503	2143.5524	2143.5503
5	88.9932	92.7070	87.7998	726.2998	787.1211	706.5003
6	140.0000	140.0000	140.0000	1596.4643	1596.4643	1596.4643
7	259.6006	259.6004	259.5997	2612.9019	2612.8983	2612.8846
8	284.6143	284.6004	284.5997	2780.1031	2779.8502	2779.8368
9	284.5997	284.6004	284.5997	2798.2312	2798.2440	2798.2303
10	130.0000	130.0028	130.0000	2502.0650	2502.1290	2502.0650
11	168.7998	168.8008	94.0000	2959.4585	2959.4811	1893.3054
12	168.7998	168.8008	94.0000	2977.4549	2977.4776	1908.1668
13	214.7598	214.7606	214.7598	3792.0703	3792.0901	3792.0700
14	394.2794	304.5204	394.2794	6414.8612	5149.7187	6414.8604
15	304.5191	394.2801	394.2794	5171.1965	6436.6047	6436.5863
16	394.2794	394.2801	394.2794	6436.5870	6436.6047	6436.5863
17	489.2794	489.2801	489.2794	5296.7114	5296.7265	5296.7107
18	489.2794	489.2801	489.2794	5288.7658	5288.7809	5288.7652
19	511.2796	511.2817	511.2794	5540.9342	5540.9797	5540.9292
20	511.2794	511.2817	511.2794	5540.9099	5540.9597	5540.9092
21	523.2867	523.2793	523.2794	5071.4381	5071.2898	5071.2897
22	523.2836	523.2793	523.2807	5071.3753	5071.2898	5071.3156
23	523.2794	523.2832	523.2794	5057.2237	5057.3002	5057.2231
24	523.2794	523.2832	523.2794	5057.2237	5057.3002	5057.2231
25	523.2794	523.2793	523.2794	5275.0891	5275.0886	5275.0885
26	523.2794	523.2793	523.2794	5275.0891	5275.0886	5275.0885
27	10.0000	10.0000	10.0000	1140.5240	1140.5240	1140.5240
28	10.0000	10.0000	10.0000	1140.5240	1140.5240	1140.5240
29	10.0000	10.0000	10.0000	1140.5240	1140.5240	1140.5240
30	91.2184	87.8008	87.7999	762.9889	706.5149	706.5001
31	190.0000	189.9989	190.0000	1643.9913	1643.9869	1643.9913
32	190.0000	189.9989	190.0000	1643.9913	1643.9869	1643.9913
33	190.0000	189.9989	190.0000	1643.9913	1643.9869	1643.9913
34	164.9179	164.8036	164.8015	1587.5968	1585.6100	1585.5733
35	164.8672	164.8036	194.3928	1541.0193	1539.9348	1985.3690
36	164.8786	164.8036	200.0000	1541.2137	1539.9348	2043.7270
37	110.0000	110.0000	110.0000	1220.1661	1220.1661	1220.1661
38	110.0000	110.0000	110.0000	1220.1661	1220.1661	1220.1661
39	110.0000	110.0000	110.0000	1220.1661	1220.1661	1220.1661
40	511.2795	511.2794	511.2794	5540.9320	5540.9299	5540.9292
Sum	10500.0000	10500.0000	10500.0000	121415.4560	121415.0522	121412.5704