This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new approach for solving the economic dispatch problem in power systems using a hybrid particle swarm optimization and simulated annealing algorithm. The paper introduces economic dispatch and describes previous solution methods. It then presents the new hybrid algorithm, which combines the global search capabilities of particle swarm optimization with the probabilistic jumping of simulated annealing to find high-quality solutions faster. The paper applies the method to test cases and finds it performs better than traditional and other computational techniques at determining low-cost generation schedules that satisfy operational constraints.