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	Despacho Económico	Compromiso de Unidades
Campo	Ingeniería eléctrica	Ingeniería eléctrica
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	1958	1959
Autor original	Lester K. Kirchmayer	Charles J. Baldwin
Tipo	Continuous optimization for allocating power output among committed generators	Combinatorial optimization for generator turn-on/turn-off scheduling
Fuente seminal	Kirchmayer, L. K. (1958). Economic Operation of Power Systems. Wiley & Sons.	Baldwin, C. J., Dale, K. M., & Dittrich, R. F. (1959). A study of the economic shutdown of generating units in daily dispatch. AIEE Transactions, 78(3), 272-282.
Alias	ED, Least-Cost Generation Dispatch	UC, Generator Commitment, Thermal Unit Scheduling
Relacionados	3	3
Resumen	Economic Dispatch (ED) is the process of optimally allocating power output among committed generators to meet demand at minimum fuel cost. Introduced by Kirchmayer in 1958, ED is a fundamental real-time optimization problem solved every few minutes in power system operations. Unlike Unit Commitment (which decides generator on/off), ED assumes generators are already committed and focuses on splitting load most economically. ED's rapid feedback enables efficient real-time power plant operations.	Unit Commitment (UC) is the problem of deciding which power generation units should be switched on or off over a planning horizon (typically 24-168 hours) to minimize total operating cost while meeting demand and reserve requirements. Introduced by Baldwin et al. in 1959, UC is a fundamental scheduling problem in power system operations, combining combinatorial optimization (which units to commit) with continuous optimization (optimal power output). UC remains one of the most important and computationally challenging problems in power systems.