PowSyBl Roadmap

PowSyBl Roadmap

Documentation

  • Improve our functional documentation

  • More and more user stories

  • More and more tutorials

  • A more logical plan for the website

Demonstrator

We have started to create a web-based demonstrator packaged as docker images to show the world what PowSyBl is: https://demo.powsybl.org/study-app/. It is available for everyone to experiment, with some great features:

  • Import networks (we are working on TSOs part of the European network)

  • Display networks on a map using CIM-CGMES Geographical Location (GL) profile

  • Display substations (single line diagram) using CIM-CGMES Diagram Layout (DL) profile

  • Apply simple modifications to the network topology (tap changes, setpoints changes, status of switches)

  • Run power flows and display the calculation results

  • Run security analyses and display violations on the network map and in a synthetic table

Converters

CIM-CGMES

→ Importer

  • End of basic importer (operational limits and HVDC conversions improvement)

  • Diagram layout (DL) profile management

  • Geographical location (GL) profile management

  • Generation and Load Shift Keys (GLSK) and Contingency list, Remedial Actions and additional Constraints (CRAC) management

  • Merging through the merging view

← Exporter

  • Incremental export: Export back to a CIM-CGMES file, a network imported from a CIM-CGMES file.

  • Full export: Export to a CIM-CGMES file, a network imported from any supported format.

XIIDM

→ Importer

  • Version management (backward and forward compatibility).

  • The C++ implementation is almost finished and will be in open source in February 2020. Then, we have planned to work on version management.

← Exporter

  • Version management.

  • C++ implementation is almost finished and will be in open source in February 2020. Then, we have planned to work on version management.

UCTE

← Exporter

  • Done !

JSON

→ Importer

  • to be done

← Exporter

  • to be done

Grid modeling

The backward compatibility management has been done last year. We have now a strong basis to change the core network model:

  • Three windings transformers modeling improvement: almost done.

  • HVDC modeling improvement

  • Operational limits modeling

  • Linear and non linear shunt compensators

  • Extenstions for automatic generation control and for monitoring

  • DC network modeling (maybe for 2021)

  • Merging view when several networks are merged.

  • A listener that records events occurring on the network has been implemented. We have planned to functionally validate it.

Simulators

  • Integration of Dynawo: work in progress.

  • Improving our open load flow used for tests, experimental and collaboration purposes. For more information, please read the README file.

Data management

  • A persistent implementation of the network core model (IIDM) based on Apache Cassandra

  • A persistent implementation of the triple store

  • A Persistent implementation of the extensions

  • A permissions and quotas management in the AFS

  • A log collector in the AFS

Viewing

  • Voltage level view: display clean, pretty and interactive drawings of voltage levels

  • Substation view: display clean, pretty and interactive drawings of substations

  • Improvement of the graphical charter of electro-technical components

  • A geographical web view of the network

Grid Study Environment

  • A nice view of dependencies between objects

  • Provide the new features of AFS in the Grid Study Environment

High level services

  • Package and distribute computation services based on spring, as docker images

Functional tests

We plan to validate a CIM-CGMES based workflow, focusing on the functional validation, the computation time and the memory consumption. The CIM-CGMES workflow consists in importing networks (also called Individual Grid Model), running a power flow, merging the networks (topologically at least), running a power flow on the merged network (also called Common Grid Model), applying modifications and exporting the updated network(s).