Unit Commitment and methods for Solving; a review

Nowadays important problem in economic is optimum generation and consumption of energy. Unit commitment and economic dispatch is one of the most important issues in power systems. So knowing method solve in unitcommitment is necessity. In this paper we survey and compare a number of methods for solving UC included tabu search, simulated annealing, genetic algorithm, abc algorithm. In this paper we review several methods used in the unit commitment in addition to advantages and disadvantages of these methods.