I’m not sure I understand what you mean by a radial system with more than one
substation. You definitely don’t want to set multiple buses of type REF, though
you could use type PV for all but one of the substations, but that is
equivalent to turning a radial system into a meshed system.
Ray
> On May 26, 2017, at 10:27 AM, Andrey Vieira <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi All! I have a question about the use of several substation bars in the
> case of radial distribution systems with more than one substation.
> Examples:
> A) Case 16 buses : it has 3 substations;
> B) Case 135 buses: it has 2 substations;
> C) Case 84 buses : it has 11 substations.
>
> In the case of 84 buses, for example, can I identify all substation buses
> with different numberings and indicate that all 11 buses are of
> type 3 in the mpc.bus matrix? Instead of numbering all 11 with the same
> number (1 for exemplo)?
>
> Can anybody advice on representation these sources in MATPOWER?
>
> Andrey R Vieira
