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In the proposed wind-storage combined operation technology, the storage side is foreseen to play a significant role in power system day-ahead generation scheduling. Based on the operational characteristics of pumped storage power stations, the day-ahead dispatching method of a power system with wind farms and pumped storage power stations is studied. The dispatching mode that aims at the lowest operating cost is proposed, taking into consideration the coordination relationship between the scheduling benefit of pumped storage power stations and the total peak-shaving economy of the system and the fluctuation of new energy output. First, taking the constraint of reservoir capacity, the output power, and the daily pumping power of the pumped storage power station into account, a day-ahead generation scheduling model is constructed, with the objective of minimizing costs. Then, the imperial competition algorithm is applied to the proposed model. Finally, the algorithm is compared with the standard particle swarm optimization algorithm. The simulation results based on standard 4-unit and 10-unit systems indicate that the proposed method is effective and robust for a power system with wind power and pumped storage power stations.