Abstract:
The aim of this research is to study and develop a computer program for calculating and
solving Unit Commitment (UC) problem by using Genetic Algorithm (GA). This computing
program can solve both the traditional UC and a Profit-Based UC problems considering various
constraints, namely Power balance, Generating capacity, Minimum Up/Down time and Spinning
Reserve constrains. However, transmission loss will not be taken into account for this study.
This research can be an alternative tool for dealing with UC problem and it can be applied
for the practical problems as well. The experimental results illustrate that the purposed computing
program shows the superiority over the traditional method in terms of the searching performance.