Hi dr Zimmerman,
 
I have one question and one observation
 
Question ---> As generators can consume and inject reactive power, does 
matpower control de voltage in the nodes via reactive power consumption? In 
order to reduce the voltage at the injection node.
 
 
Observation --> If I am not wrong you calculate the Line Series Losses using 
this equation Loss = (Vf - Vt)^2 / (R +jX)
 
I think Ploss SERIES depends more strongly on the line current I^2 than  on the 
voltage variation at the nodes. 
 
My understanding is that Ploss SHUNT depends more strongly on the voltage than 
on the current.
 
I found this equation for Ploss series
 
Ploss,series = [P/V]^2*Rline + [Q/V]^2*Rline 
 
So that the voltage does not influence the losses but the injection of P and Q.
 
Am I wrong about this?? I would appreciate your comments..

>>> Ray Zimmerman <[email protected]> 1/31/2012 4:31 >>>
I'm not certain exactly what characteristic of the problem results in this 
issue, but I have seen it often. The primal/dual interior point algorithm 
solves an A x = b linear system of equations to compute the update step, and in 
some cases the corresponding A matrix becomes singular or nearly singular. It 
may be that the problem is too flat or something, I'm not sure. If it solves 
successfully anyway, just printing these warnings, it's fine, but sometimes the 
optimization will fail completely. In that case, my only solution is to switch 
to a different solver.

There are probably improvements that can be made to the MIPS algorithm to make 
it more robust under these circumstances. Any suggestions are appreciated.


-- 

Ray Zimmerman
Senior Research Associate
419A Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
phone: (607) 255-9645




On Jan 31, 2012, at 4:23 AM, Boris Penaloza wrote:



Warning: Matrix is singular to working precision. 
> In mips at 422
  In mipsopf_solver at 145
  In opf_execute at 106
  In opf at 225
  In runopf at 96
  In pqinput at 53 
 
I am getting this message error as I try to run a simulation. Does anybody know 
what it means??
 
thanks...


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