A Hybrid Search Algorithm for Midterm Optimal Scheduling of Thermal Power Plants

Algorithm 2

Algorithm for VSA.

VSA

Input initial feasible solution ,

actual operation data for d days before the start point

feasible solution space , ,

initial value

Output optimized solution

for   to

 for all periods from to

  for all the feasible states from to

   Define num to count, num = 0

   for all plants states from to

    if   &

     num = num + 1

    end if

   end for

   if num = M

    Calculate

    if  

     Replace using ;

    end if

   end if

  end for

 end for

 Obtain new solution

 If  I = R

  Obtain optimized solution

 end if

end for