LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl - A Hands-On Approach

Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?

Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!

During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.

PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:

- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;

- Visualization tools to display your network;

- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;

The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.

What you will learn during the webinar:

- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;

- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.

1. Powsybl
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Project overview
03/06/2024

2. PowSyBl for Power System Blocks
Modular library dedicated to grid modelling, simulation and
visualization
Also available to Python users through Pypowsybl
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3. PowSyBl is an open-source library
Code available on GitHub
•6 mainrepositories
•41 repositories in total
License
•Mozilla Public License v2.0
(MPL 2.0)
Community
•Slack for questions / open discussions
•>200 people on Slack, >100 developers on GitHub
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4. Powsybl is part of the LF Energy
2019
–
admission to the LFE
2023
–
OpenSSF best
practice silver
badge
2024
–
security audit
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5. Powsybl is part of the LF Energy
Among other criteria:
•Organizational diversity
•Production or planned production
use of the project
•Operational Technical Governance
for the project
Monthly Technical
Steering Committee
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6. PowSyBl main features
Import/export in
several formats
•Common grid components
•Fully extendable
•Merging / subnetworks
•Network reduction
•Etc.
Internal grid model
•Loadflow calculation
•Security analysis
•Sensitivity analysis
•Short-circuit analysis
•Remedial action optimizer
•Optimal power flows
Simulation APIs
•Network-area diagrams
•Single-line diagrams
•powsybl-dev-tools (viewer for
developers)
•Pypowsybl widgets for
visualization coming soon
Network
visualization
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IIDM
CIM CGMES
UCTE IEEE-CDF
PSS/E
AMPLMatpower
PowerFactory

7. PowSyBl used in operation as well as in R&D
Open RAO
High performance tool to
optimize non-costly
remedial actions over
several European
countries
CIMDesk
(powerinfo.us)
Widely used tool (TSOs,
energy trading companies,
grid coordination
organizations…)
Power flow calculations
Python user
community
PhD students
ACER
Baltic RCC
…
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8. What’s next?
Further diversification of the TSC
Roadmap available on GitHub and updated at each Technical Steering
Committee
Security analysis with more remedial actions and complex automatons
Small grid study application for Pypowsybl users
Jupowsybl for optimization
New CGMES features
Refactoring of the documentation
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9. Questions