pylon.dc_pf – DC Power Flow

Defines a solver for DC power flow [1].

[1] Ray Zimmerman, “dcpf.m”, MATPOWER, PSERC Cornell, version 3.2,

http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/, June 2007

class pylon.dc_pf.DCPF(case, solver='UMFPACK')

Bases: object

Solves DC power flow [1].

[1] Ray Zimmerman, “dcpf.m”, MATPOWER, PSERC Cornell, version 3.2,

http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/, June 2007

solve()

Solves DC power flow for the given case.

pylon.ac_pf – AC Power Flow

Defines solvers for AC power flow [1].

[1] Ray Zimmerman, “runpf.m”, MATPOWER, PSERC Cornell, http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/, version 4.0b1, Dec 2009

class pylon.ac_pf._ACPF(case, qlimit=False, tolerance=1e-08, iter_max=10, verbose=True)

Bases: object

Defines a base class for AC power flow solvers [1].

[1] Ray Zimmerman, “runpf.m”, MATPOWER, PSERC Cornell, http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/, version 4.0b1, Dec 2009

solve()

Override this method in subclasses.

class pylon.ac_pf.NewtonPF(case, qlimit=False, tolerance=1e-08, iter_max=10, verbose=True)

Bases: pylon.ac_pf._ACPF

Solves the power flow using full Newton’s method [2].

[2] Ray Zimmerman, “newtonpf.m”, MATPOWER, PSERC Cornell, http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/, version 4.0b1, Dec 2009

class pylon.ac_pf.FastDecoupledPF(case, qlimit=False, tolerance=1e-08, iter_max=20, verbose=True, method='XB')

Bases: pylon.ac_pf._ACPF

Solves the power flow using fast decoupled method [3].

[3] Ray Zimmerman, “fdpf.m”, MATPOWER, PSERC Cornell, version 4.0b1, http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/, December 2009

pylon.opf – Optimal Power Flow

Defines a generalised OPF solver and an OPF model [1].

[1] Ray Zimmerman, “opf.m”, MATPOWER, PSERC Cornell, version 4.0b1,

http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/, December 2009

class pylon.opf.OPF(case, dc=True, ignore_ang_lim=True, opt=None)

Bases: object

Defines a generalised OPF solver [1].

[1] Ray Zimmerman, “opf.m”, MATPOWER, PSERC Cornell, version 4.0b1,

http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/, December 2009

solve(solver_klass=None)

Solves an optimal power flow and returns a results dictionary.