International Science and Technology Journal

Due to the emissions resulting from the consumption of fossil fuels in the electric power plants, not only operating costs should be considered, but also reducing the pollution in electric load distribution problem. In this paper, the economic/environmental load distribution were investigated by minimizing generation costs and environmental pollution, taking into account operation constraints and energy balance, by using artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, it was tested on an IEEE 30-bus electrical power system and the results obtained were compared with equal, random and size distributions. The results showed that the proposed technology is more feasible and efficient to find the minimum in reducing costs or reducing emissions, or both, according to the percentage proposed by the decision maker. Keywords: economic distribution, environmental distribution, optimization, artificial bee colony algorithm, price penalty factor.