Optimal Power Flow Using Differential Evolution Under Deregulated Environment.

To meet the growing load demand, power industries throughout the world are undergoing a restructuring process. The Independent Power Producers (IPP) must respond quickly to those load changes with respect to time. This paper describes the solution for Optimal Power Flow (OPF) in a deregulated environment using Differential Evolution (DE) technique. The proposed approach is capable of obtaining minimum solution irrespective of the nature of the objective function. The effectiveness of the approach is compared with the performance of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique. The algorithm has been demonstrated on IEEE-14, 30 systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]