New requirements on the optimal deployment of the AGC units were put forward by energy-saving dispatch.Under the new dispatch pattern,the goal should be the minimum of the energy consumption.The mathematic model of the AGC units deployment was established,and the influence of the system network constraint was considered.A novel chaos genetic algorithm was adopted in this paper to obtain the optimal solution for the AGC units deployment.Chaotic disturbance was added in conventional GA algorithm to avoid trap...