of ELD is to minimize the fuel cost while satisfying the load demand with transdon
mnstrahts. The classical lambda iteration method har bcen uscd to solve the ELD
problem. This mcthod has uscd equal incranent cwt crittrion for systems without
bansmission losses and penalty factors using B, matrix for considering the lo-.
Othn methods sucb as gradient, newton, linear programming and interior point have also
ken applied to solve the ELD problem [124]. Traditionally, t h d units arc using a
single fuel and hence the ELD of such generating units have a single cost function. In
practical environment, thermal units are using multiple fuels like coal, natural gas and oil.
The multiple fuel options lead the objective function of the ELD to piecewise quadratic
cost functions [74]. Hopfield neutral networks a~ uscd to solve the ELD problem with
p i d s e quadratic functions [68,89]. Jayabarathi a al. have presented the applica