I have a 20000 bus WECC system in PSSE raw format. I am trying to run the
DC power flow, but the total of the power injections that I got from
MATPOWER does not equal to zero. Are the voltage angles obtained in this
case wrong?

Thanks,
Vikram

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:46 AM, Ray Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote:

> There is no need to check. The slack bus active power will be adjusted to
> make the injections sum to zero. And the DC power flow in MATPOWER is a
> lossless approximation. That is, it assumes the losses are zero.
>
>    Ray
>
>
> On Mar 28, 2018, at 2:28 PM, vikram reddy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a 20000 bus system and running a DC load flow. Now, the
> power injection vector computed as
>
>   Pbus = real(makeSbus(baseMVA, bus, gen)) - Pbusinj - bus(:, GS) /
> baseMVA;
>
> In general, the total of the power injection vector should be zero
> implying generation=load+losses. MATPOWER does not do the checking if the
> total of injection vector is zero.
>
> 1. Why does MATPOWER not check if the total of injection vector goes to
> zero? Is it not important?
> 2.  What happens if the injection vector is not zero and running the DC
> load flow? I assume the voltage angles thus obtained will have an error.
> 3. Assuming losses is the total sum of Pbus vector, how should the losses
> be distributed?
>
> Thanks,
> Vikram
>
>
>
>

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