An educational purpose GUI for evolutionary computation in economic dispatch problem

In this paper we propose an evolutionary computation (genetic algorithm) based approach to economic dispatch problem. In case of thermal power plants fuel cost is an important element. Fuel price tend to rise from time to time. Therefore effort should be given on minimizing the fuel cost. In the proposed approach elitism operation in genetic algorithm is exploited very well to improve the quality of solution, and it is compared with the classical optimization technique. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) is developed for educational purposes.