Sajjad Ahmed Abdulkareem - Department of Electrical Engineering, Isfahan (khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran,
Behdad Arandian - Department of Electrical Engineering, Dolatabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran,

One of the most important tasks used in the power grid to reduce costs is unit commitment. Unit commitments defines which power plant must be on and also defines power production of each plant. Power market (deregulated environment) changes formulation of this optimization problem. This study introduces power market segments and their effect on unit commitment problem..

Optimization, Power market, Unit commitment