Re: Blackout in the USA - Islands VS Whole System

2015-03-23 Thread Abhyankar, Shrirang G.
From: Ray Zimmerman mailto:r...@cornell.edu>> Reply-To: MATPOWER discussion forum mailto:matpowe...@list.cornell.edu>> Date: Monday, March 23, 2015 at 1:49 PM To: MATPOWER discussion forum mailto:matpowe...@list.cornell.edu>> Subject: Re: Blackout in the USA - Islands VS Whole System Well, con

Re: Blackout in the USA - Islands VS Whole System

2015-03-23 Thread Bijay Hughes
Ray, it is not just a freak coincidence, the system of linear equations in DC powerflow lends to a solution for almost all cases I tried where islands are formed. With the example you gave here, you hit the nail on the head. It lends to solution even for non-matching load and generation (for situ

RE: how power can be absorbed by the slack bus

2015-03-23 Thread angelina sirri
I hadn't thought of limiting the mpc.gen(wind_farm,10) to be equal to mpc.gen(wind_farm,9). Previously I had mpc.gen(wind_farm,10)=0 , so when wind output was higher than the total load, simply results.gen(wind_farm,2) was almost equal to the total load, and the rest of the wind output was cu

RE: knitro does not converge

2015-03-23 Thread angelina sirri
output of mpver : MATPOWER Version 4.114-Dec-2011MATLAB Version 8.113-Feb-2013 Release: (R2013a) Optimization Toolbox Version 6.313-Feb-2013 Release: (R2013a) MIPS Version 1.007-Feb-2011BPMPD_MEX

Re: runpf using different load models

2015-03-23 Thread arun s nair
Hi Shri, Thanks a lot for this. It will be a great help for my graduate research. Actually I was kind of stuck as to how should I go forward. Thanking you again & Regards, Arun Nair On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Abhyankar, Shrirang G. < abhy...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > I¹ve started working o

Re: knitro does not converge

2015-03-23 Thread Ray Zimmerman
Later versions of Knitro changed their Matlab interface and have not been tested with older versions of MATPOWER that used an older interface, so I’m not sure what to expect with that combination. Could I see the output of mpver and the output of t_opf_knitro? Ray > On Mar 23, 2015, at 1:

Re: Blackout in the USA - Islands VS Whole System

2015-03-23 Thread Ray Zimmerman
Well, conceptually, no I’m afraid it doesn’t answer my question. For example, suppose you have a system with a single slack bus and you open several lines and create an island with more load than generation, with no slack bus. How is it possible for a DC power flow to converge* to any meaningful

Re: runpf using different load models

2015-03-23 Thread Abhyankar, Shrirang G.
I¹ve started working on adding ZIP load model in MATPOWER. Will try to update you in a couple of days. Shri -Original Message- From: Ray Zimmerman Reply-To: MATPOWER discussion forum Date: Monday, March 23, 2015 at 10:40 AM To: MATPOWER discussion forum Subject: Re: runpf using differe

RE: knitro does not converge

2015-03-23 Thread angelina sirri
I am using matpower 4.1 and knitro 9.1.0. And also all tests are successful when I type test_matpower. Why should there be a problem with older matpower versions? Regards,Angelina From: r...@cornell.edu Subject: Re: knitro does not converge Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:59:08 -0400 To: matpowe...@lis

Re: Blackout in the USA - Islands VS Whole System

2015-03-23 Thread Bijay Hughes
AC powerflow has convergence problem in many scenarios which we all know. The DC powerflow converges for the whole system even if this system has one or many islands; however, if a system contains one or many islands the AC powerflow does not converge. Does this answer your question? On Mon, Mar 2

Re: how power can be absorbed by the slack bus

2015-03-23 Thread Ray Zimmerman
Have you simply tried it? I can’t think of any reason that a negative output from the slack bus should cause problems. Ray > On Mar 20, 2015, at 1:32 PM, angelina sirri wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am trying to simulate active network management in distribution network in > 11kv. I have a

Re: knitro does not converge

2015-03-23 Thread Ray Zimmerman
Knitro solves it just fine on my machine. Are you using the current versions of both MATPOWER (5.1) and Knitro (9.1.0)? (type mpver to see what versions you have installed) And does it pass all of the tests? (type test_matpower). Ray > On Mar 20, 2015, at 10:58 AM, angelina sirri wrote: >

Re: How to include additional cost

2015-03-23 Thread Ray Zimmerman
The power flow in branch 3 is not an optimization variable, so you need to express your cost as a function of the optimization variables. For an AC power flow model, this is non-linear, so that’s problematic. For a DC power flow model, however, the flow is a linear function of the angles so you

Re: Blackout in the USA - Islands VS Whole System

2015-03-23 Thread Ray Zimmerman
I don’t understand approach (1). I don’t know why you say that DC power flow implies you don’t have to keep track of islanding. How does the AC or DC power flow make a difference here? Ray > On Mar 20, 2015, at 6:08 AM, Bijay Hughes wrote: > > Hej all, > > I am modeling blackout in the

Re: runpf using different load models

2015-03-23 Thread Ray Zimmerman
MATPOWER does not support ZIP load models in any of its programs, PF, CPF or OPF. So you would have to implement your own. If you already understand how to implement the different load models in a Newton-Raphson power flow and have specific questions about MATPOWER’s power flow implementation t