International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Recently, the emission problem and economic dispatch (EPED) becomes crucial aspects in the power system operation. These aspects are measured technically using financial payments as the total operating cost based on pollutant productions and fuel consumptions throughout individual costs of generating units based on a committed power output to meet a load demand. This paper introduces the newest artificial intelligent computation, harvest season artificial bee colony (HSABC) algorithm, for determining the optimal solution of the EPED based on the operating cost function using IEEE-62 bus system with various operational constraints. Results obtained show that HSABC has short time computations and fast convergences while space areas give different implications on performances. The optimal solution produces various individual power outputs, pollutants, and costs.