Yes. I am making the line status zero and also making the removed buses as
isolated. But apart from that is there anything else that I should change
in the vectors of the mpc struct? I am still getting that warning with a
smaller PTDF matrix generated this time.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Ray Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:

> The context of the error message is important. In this case, it has
> nothing to do with the ill-conditioning of a matrix encountered by MIPS in
> the AC OPF solution, rather the ill-conditioning of a matrix encountered in
> forming the PTDF. I suppose it's possible that the same underlying network
> conditions could cause both.
>
> Are you sure that the remaining system is fully-connected? I suspect that
> the PTDF calculation may encounter singular matrices if the network is not
> connected, though I haven't tested it.
>
> I suggest converting the indexing to a consecutive internal ordering (and
> removing out-of-service branches, buses, etc) by calling ext2int() 
> *after*setting the line statuses to zero and
> *before* calling makePTDF().
>
> --
> Ray Zimmerman
> Senior Research Associate
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>
>
>
>
> On Feb 28, 2012, at 7:29 AM, Ravikumar V wrote:
>
> Hi Trivik Verma,
>
> This is Matlab error message appears when the matrix inverse is not
> possible because of singular matrix. This shows that the power system
> becomes unhealthy or ill-conditioning because of opening several lines.
> Kindly refer previous posts on this topic.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01678.html
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Trivik <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Could anyone help me??
>>
>> I am viewing a power grid using MATPOWER and for my simulations I need to
>> remove a node together with its links. By doing so, I am changing
>> mpc.branch(links,:) = 0. After removing the respective links, I am
>> calculating PTDFs again. The first time is fine, but in the event of
>> redistribution of flows, the next time I am removing about 10 percent of
>> the nodes and calculating PTDFs. I get a warning as follows,
>>
>> Warning: Matrix is close to singular or badly scaled.
>>          Results may be inaccurate. RCOND = 4.060450e-019.
>>
>> Do I have to remove something else from the mpc struct as well?
>>
>> cheers,
>> Trivik
>>
>
>
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