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Convenient Power System Modelling and Analysis based on PYPOWER and pandas
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OPF: simulation of network including batteries over time snapshots #61

Closed nesnoj closed 7 years ago

nesnoj commented 7 years ago

Dear developers,

I'd like to add a battery and do simulations over several time snapshots. In your code I only found some batteries in the CIGRE example as non-controllable static generators. I added a battery using a controllable non-static generator. Is it possible to simulate a battery in pp over several time steps - does pp actually support OPF over time?

I couldn't find any time- or SOC-related code but to be sure: I assume the answer is no?

FlorianShepherd commented 7 years ago

Unfortunately scripts and functions for the simulation of time-dependent variables, such as batteries, are not integrated in the pandapower open-source version. PP is designed for single power flow, opf, short circuit and state estimation analysis. As you already mentioned, batteries could be implemented with a controllable sgen. Feel free to open a branch / project, which can serve as a basis for such implementations and to get the help of others facing similiar problems.

Nonetheless, pandapower is well suitable for time series simulations. Parts of it are even optimized for time series simulations. For example the "recycle" parameter can be used to reduce the amount of (unncessary) conversion steps. Also the different init method reduce the time to converge for the NR power flow algorithm to speed up simulations.

nesnoj commented 7 years ago

Thanks for your statement, I dug around some of the functionalities.. Currently I do not have time for forking but I'll consider that for future works. Nevertheless, thanks for your great tool which enriches the open source modelling world!