A comprehensive Review on Evolutionary Optimization Techniques applied for Unit Commitment Problem

Unit Commitment (UC) is a key task in electric power system operation, aiming at minimizing the total cost of power generation. It is essential to monitor wide range of activities and practices of UC necessary to determine the operating plan of generating units. The UC problem is particularly crucial, when the behavior of loads at every hour interval, is oscillatory and with different operational constraints and environments. Many works have been proposed, with different optimization methods to solve the UC problem. This paper gives a detailed review of the evolutionary optimization techniques, employed for solving UC problem, by collecting them from lots of peer reviewed published papers. This review was carried out under many sections, based on various evolutionary optimization techniques, to help new researchers, dealing with modern UC problem solutions, under different situations of power system.