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In this article, Artificial Cooperative Search (ACS) algorithm is incorporated with the quadratic approximation (QA) operator to solve the multi-objective economic emission load dispatch (EELD) problems with different generation units. ACS is a Swarm Intelligence-based metaheuristic algorithm, based on the interaction between prey and predator organisms in a habitat, which is effective at global search; however, it does not perform so well at exploring promising regions. The QA operator, on the other hand, is a non-derivative-based efficient local search method that finds the minimum of a quadratic hyperspace passing through three points in a D-dimensional space. Solving the EELD problems with the hybridized ACS-QA algorithm, as being proposed in the present article, leads to more accurate results with fewer function evaluations. Also, multi-objectivity of the problem is handled by transforming it into a single-objective problem by using the weighted sum method. The efficiency of the proposed ACS-QA algorithm is tested in comparison to the algorithms existing in literature by implementing it on six different benchmark optimization problems. Afterward, the proposed ACS-QA algorithm and the ACS algorithm are implemented on multi-objective EELD problems with different generation units. The results are compared with the solutions in literature utilizing different metaheuristic optimization algorithms. Both studies firmly showed that the ACS-QA algorithm is able to find more accurate results even though it uses fewer function evaluation calls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]