##  [Economic Dispatch](/economic-dispatch) 

  ##  [Economic Dispatch](https://engineering.quantumdictionary.io/economic-dispatch-0) 

  

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**Engineering & Applied Technologies Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

The operational optimization problem of assigning generation output among already‑committed generation units and dispatchable resources at each time step to meet demand and operational constraints while minimizing a specified objective—commonly total operating cost—subject to capacity, ramping, reserve and network constraints.