PowerModels.jl

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PowerModels.jl is a Julia/JuMP package for Steady-State Power Network Optimization. It is designed to enable computational evaluation of emerging power network formulations and algorithms in a common platform. The code is engineered to decouple problem specifications (e.g. Power Flow, Optimal Power Flow, ...) from the power network formulations (e.g. AC, DC-approximation, SOC-relaxation, ...). This enables the definition of a wide variety of power network formulations and their comparison on common problem specifications.

Core Problem Specifications

Power Flow (pf)
Optimal Power Flow (opf)
Optimal Transmission Switching (ots)
Transmission Network Expansion Planning (tnep)

Core Network Formulations

AC (polar and rectangular coordinates)
DC Approximation (polar coordinates)
LPAC Approximation (polar coordinates)
SDP Relaxation (W-space)
SOC Relaxation (W-space)
QC Relaxation (W+L-space)
IV (rectangular coordinates)

Network Data Formats

Matpower ".m" files
PTI ".raw" files (PSS(R)E v33 specfication)

Documentation

The package documentation includes a variety of useful information including a quick-start guide, network model specification, and baseline results.

Additionally, these presentations provide a brief introduction to various aspects of PowerModels,

Development

Community-driven development and enhancement of PowerModels are welcome and encouraged. Please fork this repository and share your contributions to the master with pull requests. See CONTRIBUTING.md for code contribution guidelines.

Acknowledgments

This code has been developed as part of the Advanced Network Science Initiative at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The primary developer is Carleton Coffrin(@ccoffrin) with support from the following contributors,

Per Aaslid (@peraaslid) SINTEF ER, Branch flow storage model and linear branch flow formulation
Russell Bent (@rb004f) LANL, Matpower export, TNEP problem specification
Jose Daniel Lara (@jd-lara) Berkeley, Julia v1.0 compatibility
Jay Dave (@jay-dave) KU Leuven, LPAC for TNEP and OTS problems
Hakan Ergun (@hakanergun) KU Leuven, HVDC lines
David Fobes (@pseudocubic) LANL, PSS(R)E v33 data support
Rory Finnegan (@rofinn) Invenia, Memento Logging
Frederik Geth (@frederikgeth) CSIRO, storage modeling advise, Branch Flow and current-voltage formulation
Jonas Kersulis (@kersulis) University of Michigan, Sparse SDP formulation
Miles Lubin (@mlubin) MIT, Julia/JuMP advise
Yeesian Ng (@yeesian) MIT, Documenter.jl setup
Kaarthik Sundar (@kaarthiksundar) LANL, OBBT utility

Citing PowerModels

If you find PowerModels useful in your work, we kindly request that you cite the following publication:

@inproceedings{8442948,
  author = {Carleton Coffrin and Russell Bent and Kaarthik Sundar and Yeesian Ng and Miles Lubin},
  title = {PowerModels.jl: An Open-Source Framework for Exploring Power Flow Formulations},
  booktitle = {2018 Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC)},
  year = {2018},
  month = {June},
  pages = {1-8},
  doi = {10.23919/PSCC.2018.8442948}
}

Citation of the orginal works for problem denifitions (e.g. OPF) and power flow formulations (e.g. SOC) is also encouraged when publishing works that use PowerModels.

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