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GATE Power Systems: Economic Load Dispatch (with and without considering transmission losses) – Previous Year Questions

7 GATE previous year questions on Economic Load Dispatch (with and without considering transmission losses) (Power Systems, Electrical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2015 EE Q51 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Consider the economic dispatch problem for a power plant having two generating units. The fuel costs in Rs/MWh along with the generation limits for…
  2. GATE 2021 EE Q20 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Two generators have cost functions F 1 and F 2. Their incremental-cost characteristics are dF 1dP 1=40+0.2P 1 dF 2dP 2=32+0.4P 2 They need to deliver…
  3. GATE 2022 EE Q43 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – The fuel cost functions in rupees/hour for two 600 MW thermal power plants are given by Plant 1: C 1=350+6P 1+0.004P 12 Plant 2: C 2=450+aP 2+0.003P…
  4. GATE 2023 EE Q21 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – The expressions of fuel cost of two thermal generating units as a function of the respective power generation P G1 and P G2 are given as F 1(P…
  5. GATE 2024 EE Q34 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – The incremental cost curves of two generators (Gen A and Gen B) in a plant supplying a common load are shown in the figure. If the incremental cost of…
  6. GATE 2025 EE Q64 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Two units, rated at 100 MW and 150 MW, are enabled for economic load dispatch. When the overall incremental cost is 10,000 Rs./MWh, the units are…
  7. GATE 2026 EE Q58 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A system with two generators G1 and G2 (without generator limits) is shown. The total load on the system is 1184 MW. The expressions for the cost of…