Hybrid artificial intelligence Techniques to solve the generation Maintenance scheduling problem

Abstract

As the world wide consumption of electricity continually newlineIncreases more and more pressure is put on the capabilities of power newlineGenerating systems to maintain their levels of power provision the electricity newlineUtility companies operating these power systems are faced with numerous newlineChallenges with respect to ensuring reliable electricity supply at cost effective newlineRates one of these challenges concerns the planned preventative maintenance newlineOf a utility s power generating units newlineThe generator maintenance scheduling gms problem refers to newlineThe problem of finding a schedule for the planned maintenance outages of newlineGenerating units in a power system determining a list of dates newlineCorresponding to the times when every unit is to be shut down so as to newlineUndergo maintenance this is typically a large combinatorial optimization newlineProblem, subjected to a number of power system constraints, and is usually newlineDifficult to solve newlineThe focus of this research was the maintenance decision problem newlineFor mulit unit systems with economic dependency newline newline