supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program,Grant No.2013CB036406);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51179044);the Research Innovation Program for College Graduates in Jiangsu Province of China(Grant No.CXZZ12-0242)
The hydro unit economic load dispatch (ELD) is of great importance in energy conservation and emission reduction. Dynamic programming (DP) and genetic algorithm (GA) are two representative algorithms for solving...