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STEPS: A Portable Numerical Simulation Toolkit for Electrical Power System Dynamic Studies

Li, Changgang·Wu, Yue·Zhang, Hengxu·Ye, Hua·Liu, Yutian·Liu, Yilu
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Numerical simulation is the key technique for large scale power system analysis. Redistribution of global renewable power via international interconnections requires new simulation tools to study the interconnected systems with different nominal frequencies as a whole. In this paper we introduce an open source simulation toolkit for electrical power systems (STEPS) which is hosted at Github. Its kernel is coded in C++ with major functions of power flow and electro-mechanical dynamic simulation. Flexible options are provided and configurable to improve power flow solution and dynamic simulation. Common devices and models are supported in STEPS for AC/DC hybrid system studies. Studies of interconnected systems with different nominal frequencies is supported in STEPS for research of international interconnection. Application program interfaces are provided and wrapped with Python to enable high-level interfaces for general applications. STEPS is thread safe and parallel computation is supported in both kernel and script levels to accelerate simulation. It is portable and works on Windows and GNU/Linux platforms. Cases from small to large scale systems are thoroughly tested to validate the toolkit with commercial packages as benchmarks.

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Li, Changgang, Wu, Yue, Zhang, Hengxu, Ye, Hua, Liu, Yutian, Liu, Yilu. 2020-12-15. STEPS: A Portable Numerical Simulation Toolkit for Electrical Power System Dynamic Studies. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpwrs.2020.3045102

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