I'm pretty sure those costs were invented out of thin air by the cdf2matp.m function. You could look at the code to see how they were generated. Unfortunately, since I didn't write that code, I'm not sure of the reasoning behind the values chosen.
-- Ray Zimmerman Senior Research Associate B30 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 phone: (607) 255-9645 On Aug 4, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Stephan Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Matpower-developers, > > the IEEE power flow test cases (14-bus - 300-bus) are provided with the > Matpower source-files. Within these files, generation cost data is given as > well (which is noch defined in the original test case archive at > http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/pstca/). Is there any literature where > the cost-data is from? > > I am asking since I am developing OPF methods and would like to know where > the cost data comes from. > > Thanks for your valuable help! > > Kind regards > Stephan Hutterer > >
