Economic Load Dispatch Using Novel Bat Algorithm Applying Doppler Effect

Electric power plants are located at far off places from demand centers. Due to this the transmission losses become considerably high and thereby a penalty is becoming imposed on plants to generate additional power to meet these transmission losses. ELD, or Economic Load Dispatch, is used in this situation. ELD is the phenomenon where electric power generating units are combined such that the load demand and operational constraints, including various losses, are satisfied with minimum operating cost. This is a widely researched area and the solution can be obtained through various techniques and algorithms such as Bat Algorithm. This study introduces the Doppler effect and the movement of bats across various environments using the Novel Bat Algorithm (NBA). Six generating stations are used to analyse this method's performance.