“…According to Table 5, the sum of power generation of four hydro units and three thermal plants meets the load demand during the scheduling time of the STHS problem. Proposed method provided the minimum fuel cost of $41,101.738, which is compared with simulated annealing (SA) [25], DE [11], chaotic artificial bee colony (CABC) [26], adaptive differential evolution (ADE) [23], RCGA [13], DE [10], SPPSO [12], RQEA [10], PSO [27], chaotic differential evolution (CDE) [23], clonal selection algorithm (CSA) [28], TLBO [29], TLBO [18], improved quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (IQPSO) [30], quasi-oppositional teaching learning based optimization (QTLBO) [29], Improved differential evolution (IDE) [21], adaptive chaotic differential evolution (ACDE) [23], real coded chemical reaction based optimization (RCCRO) [22], differential real-coded quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm (DRQEA) [10], and adaptive chaotic artificial bee colony algorithm (ACABC) [26], quasi-oppositional group search optimization (QOGSO), as shown in Table 6. Results show that proposed method is better than previous methods used in the test system 2, case 1.…”