This book presents a guide to the optimal power flow and dispatching literature from early 1930s to present. It classifies the methods in some detail according to the optimization techniques used and shows the functional and chronological relationships. It is not a critical review in that it does not asses the various techniques. It is concluded however that there has been a marked progression in the network modeling, optimization and numerical techniques over the years. Today, commercially available OPF algorithm all satisfy the full nonlinear load flow model and a full set of bounds on...