Resolving Economic Dispatch with Uncertainty Effect in Microgrids Using Hybrid Incremental Particle Swarm Optimization and Deep Learning Method

Microgrids are one example of a low voltage distributed generation pattern that can cover a variety of energy, such as conventional generators and renewable energy. Economic dispatch (ED) is an important function and a key of a power system operation in microgrids. There are several procedures to find the optimum generation. The first step is to find every feasible state (FS) for thermal generator ED. The second step is to find optimum generation based on FS using incremental particle swarm optimization (IPSO), FS is assumed that all units are activated. The third step is to train the input and output of the IPSO into deep learning (DL). And the last step is to compare DL output with IPSO. The microgrids system in this paper considered 10 thermal units and a wind plant with power generation based on probabilistic data. IPSO shows good results by being capable to generate a total generation as the load requirement every hour for 24 h. However, IPSO has a weakness in execution times, from 10 experiments the average IPSO process takes 30 min. DL based on IPSO can make the execution time of its ED function faster with an 11 input and 10 output architecture. From the same experiments with IPSO, DL can produce the same output as IPSO but with a faster execution time. From the total cost side, wind energy is affecting to reduce total cost until USD 22.86 million from IPSO and USD 22.89 million from DL.