%0 Journal Article %A T. Hussein %D 2012 %J International Journal of Electrical and Information Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 70, 2012 %T A Genetic Algorithm for Optimum Design of PID Controller in Load Frequency Control %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/5348 %V 70 %X In this paper, determining the optimal proportionalintegral- derivative (PID) controller gains of an single-area load frequency control (LFC) system using genetic algorithm (GA) is presented. The LFC is notoriously difficult to control optimally using conventionally tuning a PID controller because the system parameters are constantly changing. It is for this reason the GA as tuning strategy was applied. The simulation has been conducted in MATLAB Simulink package for single area power system. the simulation results shows the effectiveness performance of under various disturbance. %P 1271 - 1274