We are pleased to announce that MATPOWER 5.0b1* is now available for free
download from the MATPOWER web site ...
http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/
MATPOWER is a free, open-source software package for power system analysis,
aimed primarily at solving power flow and optimal power flow problems.
Highlights of version 5 include:
- Continuation power flow.
- Applications of semi-definite programming relaxations to power flow
equations.
- PSS/E raw data import.
- Utility routines to check network connectivity and handle islands and
isolated buses.
- New extensible options architecture.
- New and updated support for 3rd party solvers (CPLEX, GLPK, Gurobi, Knitro).
- Performance enhancements.
- Bug fixes.
More details are available in the What's New section of the web site.
We request that those using MATPOWER for their research please cite the
following reference.
R. D. Zimmerman, C. E. Murillo-Sánchez, and R. J. Thomas, "MATPOWER
Steady-State Operations, Planning and Analysis Tools for Power Systems Research
and Education," Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 12-19,
Feb. 2011.
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As always, please send any bug reports, suggestions or comments to the MATPOWER
mailing list.
Enjoy!
--
Ray Zimmerman
Senior Research Associate
B30 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
phone: (607) 255-9645
* You can consider version 5.0b1 to be a release candidate for 5.0. So please
let me know if you find anything, even minor typos in documentation, that
should be fixed for the final 5.0 release. Thanks.
