The Dynamic Economic Dispatch including Wind Power Injection in the Western Algerian Electrical Power System

In this paper, we investigate the effect of the injection of wind farm energy in the western Algerian electrical power system on Dynamic Economic Dispatch (DED). DED is solved by Harmony Search algorithm (HS). HS is a newly-developed meta-heuristic algorithm that uses a stochastic random search. It is simple in concept, few in parameters and easy in implementation. The simulations are realized by considering first the western Algerian power system as it is (WA: 2003 data), then the western Algerian electrical power system with the injection of wind farm energy (Western Algerian power system + Wind energy WAW). The results are compared in production cost and harmful emissions (CO2). After a theoretical introduction of the problem formulation and the harmony search algorithm, a description of the site and the wind farm is presented, followed by a discussion of the simulation results.