Application Note: Power Grid Modeling With Xyce™

Technical Report · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1191079· OSTI ID:1191079

Sholander, Peter E. ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

This application note describes how to model steady-state power flows and transient events in electric power grids with the SPICE-compatible Xyce™ Parallel Electronic Simulator developed at Sandia National Labs. This application notes provides a brief tutorial on the basic devices (branches, bus shunts, transformers and generators) found in power grids. The focus is on the features supported and assumptions made by the Xyce models for power grid elements. It then provides a detailed explanation, including working Xyce netlists, for simulating some simple power grid examples such as the IEEE 14-bus test case.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1191079
• Report Number(s): SAND--2015-5233; 594456
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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