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PowerSystems.jl

Overview

PowerSystems.jl is a Julia package that provides a rigorous data model using Julia structures to enable power systems modeling. PowerSystems.jl is agnostic to a specific mathematical model and can be used for many model categories.

PowerSystems.jl provides tools to prepare and process data useful for electric energy systems modeling. This package serves two purposes:

  1. It facilitates the development and open sharing of large data sets for Power Systems modeling
  2. It provides a data model that imposes discipline on model specification, addressing the challenge of design and terminology choices when sharing code and data.

The main features include:

  • Comprehensive and extensible library of data structures for electric systems modeling.
  • Large scale data set development tools based on common text based data formats (PSS/e .raw and .dyr, and MATPOWER) and configurable tabular data (e.g. CSV) parsing capabilities.
  • Optimized container for component data and time series supporting serialization to portable file formats and configurable validation routines.

PowerSystems.jl documentation and code are organized according to the needs of different users depending on their skillset and requirements. In broad terms there are three categories:

  • Modeler: Users that want to run a particular analysis or experiment and use PowerSystems.jl to develop data sets.

  • Model Developer: Users that want to develop custom components and structs in order to exploit PowerSystems.jl features to produce custom data sets.

  • Code Base Developers: Users that want to add new core functionalities or fix bugs in the core capabilities of PowerSystems.jl.

PowerSystems.jl is an active project under development, and we welcome your feedback, suggestions, and bug reports.

Note: PowerSystems.jl uses InfrastructureSystems.jl as a utility library. Several methods are re-exported from InfrastructureSystems.jl. For most users there is no need to import InfrastructureSystems.jl.

Installation

The latest stable release of PowerSystems can be installed using the Julia package manager with

] add PowerSystems

For the current development version, "checkout" this package with

] add PowerSystems#main

Citing PowerSystems.jl

Paper describing PowerSystems.jl

@article{LARA2021100747,
title = {PowerSystems.jl — A power system data management package for large scale modeling},
journal = {SoftwareX},
volume = {15},
pages = {100747},
year = {2021},
issn = {2352-7110},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100747},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711021000765},
author = {José Daniel Lara and Clayton Barrows and Daniel Thom and Dheepak Krishnamurthy and Duncan Callaway},
keywords = {Power Systems, Julia, Energy},

PowerSystems has been developed as part of the Scalable Integrated Infrastructure Planning (SIIP) initiative at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).