Solving dynamic economic and emission dispatch in power system integrated electric vehicle and wind turbine using multi-objective virus colony search algorithm

Abstract Climate change and development of today’s power grids have led to unprecedented changes in the old power grid in terms of fossil fuel consumption level and environmental pollution. So, the ancillary power plants and services have found a good position in power systems. In this paper, renewable energy generators such as wind energy units and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) are being integrated in the multi-objective dynamic economic emission dispatch (DEED) problem during a day, which minimizes wind-thermal electrical energy cost and emissions obtained by fossil-fueled power generators at the same time. To obtain a real-world problem, consider several practical and nonlinear constraints such as valve-point effect, ramp-up/ramp-down, prohibited zones, and power generation boundaries. Since the proposed multi-objective problem consists of different variables and constrains, the classical mathematic methods cannot guarantee finding the best solution. Therefore, this paper suggested a new multi-objective virus colony search (MOVCS) based on non-dominated sorting theory and fuzzy decision making for finding the best solution among Pareto fronts. Also, PEVs are remarkable and stochastic power demands and, unlike conventional demands, four dissimilar charging scenarios are considered. The efficiency of the proposed method and model is investigated on some test systems with the presence of wind units and electric vehicles during the day and night. The results are evaluated based on appropriate performance criteria. The results obtained from the proposed algorithm are compared with other algorithms, which indicates the efficiency, accuracy, and speed of this algorithm in solving the proposed problem.