Pylon

Pylon is a free software package for simulation of electric power systems and energy markets. Its purpose is to provide a simple yet powerful tool for electric power Engineers that is not tied to proprietary software and can be used and extended easily.

Pylon's features currently include:

• DC and AC (Newton's method & Fast Decoupled) power flow,
• DC and AC optimal power flow,
• State estimation,
• PSS/E, MATPOWER and PSAT data file parsers, and
• Agent-based market simultaion using reinforcement learning methods.

Quick start

With Python, setuptools and SciPy_ installed, run::

easy_install pylon

Pylon performs an AC power flow and prints a ReStructuredText_ report by default::

$ pylon data_file.raw

Refer to the documentation for detailed usage information or type::

$ pylon --help

License and Copyright

Copyright (C) 1996-2010 Power System Engineering Research Center (PSERC) Copyright (C) 2010 Richard Lincoln

Pylon is licensed under the Apache License_ version 2.0.

Credits

Pylon is developed by Richard Lincoln (r.w.lincoln@gmail.com).

Pylon is a port of MATPOWER_ to the Python programming language.

Pylon was originally funded by the EPSRC <http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/default.htm> through Grant GR/T28836/01 <http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=GR/T28836/01> for the SUPERGEN Highly Distributed Power Systems <http://www.supergen-hdps.org>_ consortium.

.. _Python: http://www.python.org .. _Setuptools: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools .. _SciPy: http://www.scipy.org .. _MATPOWER: http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/ .. _PSAT: http://www.power.uwaterloo.ca/~fmilano/psat.htm .. ReStructuredText: http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html .. Apache License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html