Hamid Reza Abdolmohammadi - Department of Electrical Engineering Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
Sajad Jafari - Department of Biomedical Engineering Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Esmaeil Nazari - Department of Electrical Engineering Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
HeidarAli Shayanfar

In this paper, an improved genetic algorithm is proposed to solve the Economic Dispatch (ED) problem for co-generation systems. The proposed algorithm is a novelBio-inspired Genetic Algorithm. This algorithm seems to be efficient in finding global optimum in the economic dispatch problem. Furthermore, it provides a suitable framework for future extension to other optimization algorithms.

Combined Heat and Power (CHP), Economic Dispatch, Evolutionary Algorithm