Dear Dr Zimmerman,
Thank you very much for this update. We use this software in teaching
and also for research.
Thank you for making the software available as open source, maintaining
it and continue to improve it.
Best regards,
Dirk Van Hertem
KU Leuven, Belgium
On 12/17/2014 09:38 PM, Ray Zimmerman wrote:
We are pleased to announce that MATPOWER 5.0 is now available for free
download from the MATPOWER web site
<http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/> ...
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 extension implementing DC OPF branch flow soft limits.
- New and updated support for 3rd party solvers (CPLEX, GLPK, Gurobi,
Ipopt, Knitro).
- Performance enhancements.
- Bug fixes.
- Improved automated test coverage.
More details are available in the What's New
<http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/#whatsnew> 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,"
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2010.2051168> Power Systems, IEEE
Transactions on, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 12-19, Feb. 2011.
Sign up here <http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/#announcelist> to
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packages, be sure to update to the latest versions.
As always, please send any bug reports, suggestions or comments to the
MATPOWER mailing list
<http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/matpower/#mailinglist>.
Enjoy!
--
Ray Zimmerman
Senior Research Associate
B30 Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
phone: (607) 255-9645
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