PYPOWER is a power flow and Optimal Power Flow (OPF) solver. It is a port of MATPOWER to the Python programming language. Current features include:

• DC and AC (Newton's method & Fast Decoupled) power flow and
• DC and AC optimal power flow (OPF)

Status

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PYPOWER is no longer actively maintained. However, should improvements to PYPOWER be required then the original author may be available on contract. Please do not hesitate to get in contact directly.

Prerequisites

PYPOWER depends upon these prerequisites on the level of the operating system:

• Python 2.7 - 3.9

Virtual Environment

PYPOWER is recommended to be installed into a virtual environment:

$ python3.8 -m venv venv  # Or any supported Python version

Dependencies

PYPOWER depends upon NumPy, SciPy and PyRLU which can be installed as follows:

$ venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Installation

The recommended way of installing PYPOWER is using pip:

$ venv/bin/python -m pip install PYPOWER

Alternatively, download and unpack the tarball and install:

$ tar zxf PYPOWER-5.x.y.tar.gz
$ venv/bin/python setup.py install

Testing

PYPOWER can be tested locally using the same tooling as on Travis CI:

$ venv/bin/python -m tox -e py27,py38  # Or any supported Python version

Using PYPOWER

Installing PYPOWER creates pf and opf commands. To list the command options:

$ venv/bin/pf -h

or:

$ venv/bin/opf -h

PYPOWER includes a selection of test cases. For example, to run a power flow on the IEEE 14 bus test case:

$ venv/bin/pf -c case14

Alternatively, the path to a PYPOWER case data file can be specified:

$ venv/bin/pf /path/to/case14.py

The opf command has the same calling syntax. For example, to solve an OPF for the IEEE Reliability Test System and write the solved case to file:

$ venv/bin/opf -c case24_ieee_rts --solvedcase=rtsout.py

For further information please refer to and the API documentation.

Support

Questions and comments regarding PYPOWER should be directed to the mailing list:

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License & Copyright

Copyright (c) 1996-2015, Power System Engineering Research Center (PSERC) Copyright (c) 2010-2021 Richard Lincoln

The code in PYPOWER is distributed under the 3-clause BSD license below. The PYPOWER case files distributed with PYPOWER are not covered by the BSD license. In most cases, the data has either been included with permission or has been converted from data available from a public source.

While not required by the terms of the license, we do request that publications derived from the use of MATPOWER explicitly acknowledge that fact by citing:

> R. D. Zimmerman, C. E. Murillo-Sanchez, and R. J. Thomas, "MATPOWER: > Steady-State Operations, Planning and Analysis Tools for Power Systems > Research and Education," Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 26, > no. 1, pp. 12–19, Feb. 2011.

Links

• MATPOWER from PSERC (Cornell)
• matpower.app MATPOWER web application based on GNU Octave in WebAssembly
• Oct2PYPOWER Python bridge to MATPOWER using Oct2Py
• pandapower from Fraunhofer IWES and University of Kassel
• TESP from PNNL
• MatDyn by Stijn Cole
• PSAT by Federico Milano
• OpenDSS from EPRI
• GridLAB-D from PNNL
• PyCIM

Changelog

Version 5.1.5 (2020-10-21)

• [NEW] Added new function: AC continuation power flow

Version 5.1.2 (2017-06-09)

• [NEW] Configured continuous integration using Travis.

Version 5.1.0 (2017-06-09)

• [NEW] Added Python 3 support.

Version 5.0.1 (2016-07-04)

• [FIX] Fixed issue #21 and issue #25 in savecase() (pull request #26).
• [CHANGE] Based on 'recursion limit' issues affecting savemat() in savecase(), converted non-scalars to arrays.
• [NEW] Created t_savecase.py and added t_savecase() to test_pypower.py.

Version 5.0.0 (2015-05-29)

• [CHANGE] 3-clause BSD License

Version 4.1.2 (2014-10-27)

• [FIX] Fixed error in runopf() (issue #11).
• [FIX] Fixed runpf.py with ENFORCE_Q_LIMS option (pull request #13).

Version 4.1.1 (2014-09-17)

• [FIX] loadcase.py: Fixed NumPy 1.9 warning about "== None" comparisions.

Version 4.1.0 (2014-05-29)

• [NEW] Support for Python 3 (3.3 and above).
• [CHANGE] Updated to MATPOWER 4.1.
• [REMOVED] Support for Python 2.5 and below.

Version 4.0.1 (2011-07-14)

• [CHANGE] printpf.py: changed boolean operators from bitwise to logical to fix the output options
• [FIX] savecase.py: adding indentation to produce valid Python modules

Version 4.0.0 (2011-07-07)

Initial release, port of MATPOWER version 4.0