A Unified Platform Enabling Power System Circuit Model Data Transfer Among Different Software

摘要

Diversity of software packages to simulate the power system circuits isconsiderable. It is challenging to transfer power system circuit model data(PSCMD) among different software tools and rebuild the same circuit in thesecond software environment. This paper proposes a unified platform (UP) wherePSCMD are stored in a spreadsheet file with a defined format. Script-basedPSCMD transfer applications, written in MATLAB, have been developed for a setof software to read the circuit model data from the UP spreadsheet andreconstruct the circuit in the destination software. This significantly easesthe process of transferring circuit model data between each pair of softwaretools. In this paper ETAP, OpenDSS, Grid LabD, and DEW are considered. In orderto test the developed PSCMD transfer applications, circuit model data of a testcircuit and an actual sample circuit from a Californian utility company, bothbuilt in CYME, were exported into the spreadsheet file according to the UPformat. Thereafter, circuit model data were imported successfully from thespreadsheet files into all above mentioned software using the PSCMD transferapplications developed for each software individually. Finally, load flowanalysis is performed in all software and the obtained results match with eachother.