Evaluation of simulation tools for energy storage system application in power systems

摘要

Energy storage systems have been increasingly used in applications at the power grid. In this way, to develop electrical analyses of these systems connected to the grid, is necessary to know how the electrical simulations tools model these elements. Therefore, the present paper present a comparison analysis of the software DIgSILENT PowerFactory, EMTP/ATP, GridLAB-D, Matlab/Simulink, OpenDSS, PowerWorld and PSCAD in order to evaluate the energy storage system modeling and the power system simulation, focusing in the efficiency and flexibility of the simulation tools. The software comparison were developed using an Impact Effort Matrix, in which each software was graded according with criteria of efforts and impact.