Introduction

Overview

grg-mpdata is a minimalist python package to support the reading and writing of Matpower network data files.

The primary entry point of the library is grg_mpdata.io module, which contains the methods for data input and output.

Installation

Simply run:

pip install grg-mpdata

Testing

grg-mpdata is designed to be a library that supports other software. It is not immediately useful from the terminal. However, you can test the parsing functionality from the command line with:

python -m grg_mpdata.io <path to Matpower case file>

If this command is successful, you will see a simplified plain text version of the network data printed to the terminal.

Compatibility

The following features of the Matpower 5.1 specification are not replicated in this library,

1. The following fields are not supported, ‘A’, ‘l’, ‘u’, ‘H’, ‘Cw’, ‘N’, ‘fparm’, ‘z0’, ‘zl’, ‘zu’
2. The matrix columns are not extensible