Dear all,

I'm starting to model and analyse power systems and I've decided to use
Matpower. I have a question regarding creating admittance matrix which is
needed to performe a load flow. Text books say that diagonal elements of
this matrix is a sum of admittances all branches connected to a particular
node and 'include also the admittance to ground of line charging
susceptance and any other fixed admittance to ground' (from 'Power System
Analysis' by H.Saadat). There is also presented a way how to convert
impedance diagram of a system into the admittance diagram and the
admittance matrix of such a systm is calculated. The diagonal elements
include also admittance of the current sources. (chapter 6 of the book)

My question is: why in Matpower (but also in examples of power flow
calculations from above book) we don't consider admittance of
sources/loads? Is this because we assume that there are 'ideal power
sources/consumers' with constant power and if we considered internal
admittances, their power would be variable and depending on the system load
and therefore couldn't be PQ-nodes anymore? Similarly for PV- and slack
node?
If not, what is a reason for that? I cannot find any explicit explanation
in the literature.

Thank you in advance and best regards,
Mateusz Wanka

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