Versioning-based service-oriented model for multi-area power system online economic load dispatch

The main objective of this paper is to construct a distributed environment through which the economic load dispatch solutions of multi-area power systems can be monitored and controlled. A single-server/multi-client architecture which enables the neighboring power systems to access the remote economic load dispatch (ELD) server at any time with their respective data and to get the economic load dispatch solutions from the remote server has been proposed. A .NET remoting architectural model has been implemented in such a way that for every specific period of time, the remote server obtains the system data simultaneously from the neighboring power systems which are the clients registered with the remote ELD server and the optimized economic load dispatch solutions from the server have been sent back to the respective clients. The ELD server creates a new thread of control for every client's request and hence complete distributed environment is exploited. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.