OPTIMAL LOAD DISPATCH PROGRAM USING A FAST POWER FLOW TECHNIQUE.

Abstract

This paper presents a new technique of Economic Dispatch for allocating generation in a power system. Penalty factors associated with generating units are calculated from a particular eigenvector of the transposed Jacobian matrix which is obtained while solving the load flow problem using a modified version of the fast power flow method developed earlier. The optimal allocation of each generating unit for the given demand on the system is obtained by solving the co-ordination equations along with load flow problem.