Does the missing value in the gen struct affect the results? I thought they 
were optional constraints

> Il giorno 12/gen/2015, alle ore 17:24, Ray Zimmerman <[email protected]> ha 
> scritto:
> 
> (First of all, this is not a valid MATPOWER case file … the gen matrix needs 
> to have 21 columns).
> 
> I’m pretty sure these are simply numerical issues. Your network has a huge 
> range for branch reactances (from 1e-4 up to 7.2415), and I’m sure the zero 
> cost generation doesn’t help. It turns out that some solvers do converge 
> (IPOPT, MINOPF, TRALM) using the default starting point, and others (MIPS and 
> KNITRO) converge if you use the power flow solution to initialize the OPF.
> 
>     Ray
> 
> E.g.
> 
> >> load mpc
> >> mpopt = mpoption('verbose', 2, 'opf.ac.solver', 'MIPS', 
> >> 'out.suppress_detail', 1, 'opf.init_from_mpc', 1);
> >> r = runopf(mpc, mpopt);                                                    
> >>                                
> MATPOWER Version 5.0, 17-Dec-2014 -- AC Optimal Power Flow
> MATLAB Interior Point Solver -- MIPS, Version 1.1, 17-Dec-2014
>  it    objective   step size   feascond     gradcond     compcond     
> costcond  
> ----  ------------ --------- ------------ ------------ ------------ 
> ------------
>   0          2.71              0.00320952        0.005      394.161           
>  0
>   1     13.561367    0.45467    0.0131881      49.7247      129.098   
> 0.00108484
>   2     2.5810166     0.2459  0.000347117      5.81263      30.6224   
> 0.00109655
>   3     3.0946997  0.0073205  1.34869e-07       0.5504      3.18123  
> 5.13551e-05
>   4     3.1139811 0.00033848  8.72888e-10    0.0214386     0.318187  
> 1.92754e-06
>   5     3.1489261 0.00061552  2.90301e-09     0.018371    0.0318179  
> 3.49342e-06
>   6     3.0091397  0.0024621    4.645e-08    0.0117079   0.00598559  
> 1.39742e-05
>   7      2.710015  0.0068676  2.23731e-07    0.0199562  0.000603092  
> 2.99035e-05
>   8     2.7116241 2.7338e-05  5.10117e-12  8.49417e-06  6.03182e-05  
> 1.60873e-07
>   9     2.7101543 2.5902e-05  5.14787e-12  8.06346e-07  6.03182e-06  
> 1.46939e-07
>  10     2.7100156 2.4442e-06  1.27526e-13  7.54021e-09  6.03182e-07   
> 1.3865e-08
> Converged!
> 
> Converged in 0.06 seconds
> Objective Function Value = 2.71 $/hr
> ================================================================================
> |     System Summary                                                          
>  |
> ================================================================================
> 
> How many?                How much?              P (MW)            Q (MVAr)
> ---------------------    -------------------  -------------  -----------------
> Buses            192     Total Gen Capacity      25.0         -25.0 to 25.0
> Generators         4     On-line Capacity        25.0         -25.0 to 25.0
> Committed Gens     4     Generation (actual)      3.5               1.7
> Loads             73     Load                     3.4               1.6
>   Fixed           72       Fixed                  3.3               1.6
>   Dispatchable     1       Dispatchable           0.1 of 0.1       -0.0
> Shunts             0     Shunt (inj)             -0.0               0.0
> Branches         191     Losses (I^2 * Z)         0.05              0.16
> Transformers     191     Branch Charging (inj)     -                0.0
> Inter-ties         0     Total Inter-tie Flow     0.0               0.0
> Areas              1
> 
>                           Minimum                      Maximum
>                  -------------------------  --------------------------------
> Voltage Magnitude   0.957 p.u. @ bus 171        1.000 p.u. @ bus 1   
> Voltage Angle      -2.53 deg   @ bus 158        0.00 deg   @ bus 1   
> P Losses (I^2*R)             -                  0.01 MW    @ line 1-2
> Q Losses (I^2*X)             -                  0.09 MVAr  @ line 1-2
> Lambda P            0.00 $/MWh @ bus 1          0.00 $/MWh @ bus 171 
> Lambda Q            0.00 $/MWh @ bus 1          0.00 $/MWh @ bus 171 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:02 AM, Simone Cochi <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear all, 
>> I can’t get the convergence for the OPF on a radial distribution network 
>> described by the mpc file that I attached. The power flow with this case 
>> file converge and all the voltage busses are between without violating any 
>> costraints. The OPF doesn’t converge with the standard voltage constraints 
>> but if I relax them, the opf converge with voltage very high voltage levels. 
>> If I relax all the busses voltage constraints and I set Vmin=Vmax for the 
>> bus 1 (primary substation) the of converge and the voltage profiles are as 
>> expected. Can someone explain this behavior?
>> 
>> Simone
>> <mpc.mat>
> 

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