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Figure 1.1Schematic representation of Power ‘supply chain’In the coming sections we will review some of the literatures which have adopted optimization techniques for Power generation, transmission and distribution.2. Optimization Techniques for Power Generation2.1 Optimal scheduling of hydrothermal plants27Mandalet al.27 demonstrated application of nonlinear programming to determine the optimal operation schedule for subsequent periods. As the operation cost of hydrothermal plants are very low, this problem is simply a nonlinear program to reduce the amount of coal used in thermal plants in power supplysystems with nonlinear constraints. The objective function and constraints of such problem are as described below.Objective function:Where F is the total cost, T is the time intervals for scheduling horizon, Ns represent number of thermal power plants and Psit is the amount of power generated in ith plant.Constraints:Demand Constraint: Total production has to meet the demand after certain unavoidable common losses.Power generation constraints: There will be minimum and maximum amounts of power that can be generated from either any of the hydro or thermal plants. And in case of hydro plants the generation amount is the function of water discharge rate and reservoir storage capacity.Storage constraints: We also have constraints based on water dynamics and storage capacities of various hydrothermal plants and water discharge rate limits based on the strength of the plant. They can be framed as follows:As you found that it is a cumbersome model, so because of recent studies in this area, recent heuristic development much useful in these cases is Particle Swan optimization model (PSO). It is time and population based model where its population changes places from time to time. The algorithm runs around the whole multidimensional region in order to find the optimum solution. Each particle adjusts its own position based on its experience along with its neighbor’s experien