Of course, you can create new cases and solve them with MATPOWER. The only requirement is that the network must be radial.
Best regards, Mirko P.S. Could you please post further questions to MATPOWER-L list so that other users may benefit in case they have similar problems. On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 18:19 +0000, Andrey Vieira wrote: > Hi Mr. M. Todorovski, Firstly thank you very much for the answer. > I am currently using some MATPOWER cases to perform > Studies of optimization in radial distribution systems aiming at > Minimizing the number of switches and maximizing the number of > customers After a fault occurs on a given bus or Region of the system. > To evaluate the results, I chose the radial cases 16, 84 And 135 of > the IEEE. When I evaluated some solutions, I came across With some > problems of convergence of the load flow, due to MATPOWER (runpf) use > Newton's method and its variants. > I noticed that when the number of feeders' buses Increased because of > the switching, the probability that the load flow would not > Convergence was high. > > In my research, I have read many papers that suggest that the > Backward/Forward Currents SUM method is used for the load flow For > radial distribution systems. I noticed that in February of > that year Some MATPOWER functions have been inserted for load flow in > radial systems Distribution systems that use exactly the method that > is suggested for my studies. I know that new functions inserted in > MATPOWER only work for the 6 cases already mentioned. I wonder If > there is a possibility of change for the radial cases of 16, 84 and > 135 buses of the IEEE. > > > > >
