I'm a new MATPOWER user, and am working on system reconfiguration. In process, the system needs to assess the new topology that will (can) be formed by connecting an offline section of the system to an online islanded (or grid connected) section of the system.
Could be please help me with the following questions:
- Is there a way to remove the cost optimization function for OPF, and replace it with the objective of maximizing the load that can be supported. The loads (and corresponding priority factors) are known. I want to solve the problem as an ILP to identify which loads can be supported given the current state of generation, and load priority factors.
- Would you recommend a better way to do (1)?
- For now, I've made the costs on all the generators equal, to make the generation cost function irrelevant to the OPF result. In the mailing archive, I've seen 'using cost = 0' as a suggestion for folks trying to do load shedding. I don't see a difference in results for my case. But, would you recommend one over other?
Thank you for taking the time,
Kind Regards,
Rishabh Jain
Doctoral Student,
FREEDM Systems Center,
NC State University, US.
