Afandi, A.N. Abstract. 2014. This paper presents performances of a harvest season artificial bee colony (HSABC) algorithm for obtaining the best solution of a combined economic and emission dispatch (CEED). Two strategies of placement are applied to IEEE-30 bus system for solving the CEED problem under some constraints. Modified rates and various distances are also used to demonstrate HSABC’s performances. Simulation results show that two placement strategies have different implications for the CEED, application of various modified rates and distances affect to convergence speeds, minimum results are searched in different starting points at the first iteration and the total number of food sources gives effects to the HSABC’s performances. (International Journal on Electrical Engineering and Informatics)