Optimization of Overall Generation Cost for Economic Load Dispatch using Ant-Lion Optimization Technique

Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) is one of the essential operation of the power system, used to save the fuel cost and efficiently meet the load demand. The issues of ELD have solved using several techniques. This work offers the resilient and efficient Ant-Lion Optimization Technique (ALOT) to solve ELD problem. The ALOT is a population-based probabilistic approach that uses the fitness function of its search agents are distributed arbitrarily throughout the search space, to direct them toward an optimal location. It also maintains note of the best outcome each search agent has been able to accomplish. The ELD problems on standard test cases under a range of constraints have been solved using ALOT technique. The proposed approach surpassed optimization strategies listed in the literature in simulations in terms of the effectiveness of the solution carried out and computational efficiency. The final results also prove the reliability of the proposed technique for the ELD problem.