Populate Feeders Example

This is an example of populating feeders with technologies. This example will take a simple static power system model and add a detailed secondary side with individual residences with a collection of devices such a HVAC, Water heater, Pool pumps, etc.

To get started nagivate to the following folder within the main script base and open the populateFeeders.py script.

# navigate to the repositories folder
cd $HOME/repositories

# from here navigate to main landing for experiment runs
cd modificationScipts
nano populateFeeders.py

This script will contain all of the setting you have available for the experiment. The following will explain the settings:

# ---------------------------------------------------------------
# ----------------------- Settings ------------------------------
# ---------------------------------------------------------------

# name of the experiment
experimentName = 'populateExample'

# number of distribution systems in the experiment
distributionSystemNumber = 2

# create simple bash run scipt that will start a GridLAB-D instance per feeder
createRunScripts = True

# this assumes that everything associated with this experiment is in a certain folder structure. This is the path to the root folder
rootPath = '/people/hans464/helicsUseCaseScripts'

# path to where you want the experiment outputs (if left empty we assume /experiments)
experimentFilePath = ''

# file path that contains the GLMs to extract (if left empty we assume /modelDependency/feeders)
feederFilePath = ''

# file path that contains include files for the experiment (if left empty we assume /modelDependency)
includeFilePath = ''

# list of distribution systems models and their population distribution for the experiment (feeder : [percent [.])
inputGLM = dict()
inputGLM['small4BusSystem.glm'] = [1, 1]
# inputGLM['R1-12.47-1.glm'] = [0.14, 1]
# inputGLM['R1-12.47-2.glm'] = [0.14, 1]
# inputGLM['R1-12.47-3.glm'] = [0.14, 1]
# inputGLM['R2-12.47-1.glm'] = [0.08, 2]
# inputGLM['R2-12.47-2.glm'] = [0.07, 2]
# inputGLM['R2-12.47-3.glm'] = [0.07, 2]
# inputGLM['R3-12.47-1.glm'] = [0.12, 3]
# inputGLM['R3-12.47-2.glm'] = [0.12, 3]
# inputGLM['R3-12.47-3.glm'] = [0.12, 3]


# This specifies what technologies to use. What is specified here will overwrite the defaults in the technologyConfiguration.py
useFlags = dict()

# This specifies what feeder configuration to use. What is specified here will overwrite the defaults in the feederConfiguration.py
feederConfig = dict()
# this can enable logging to a mysql database instead of csv files
feederConfig['sequelLogging'] = False
feederConfig["sequelSettings"] = ['localhost','gridlabd','passGLD123','3306','0']
# some settings to upgrade the equipment of the feeders
feederConfig['fuses_upgrade_level'] = 2
feederConfig['transformer_upgrade_level'] = 1
feederConfig['transformer_upgrade_cutoff'] = 100
# start and stop time for the simulation
feederConfig['startdate'] = '2013-08-28 00:00:00'
feederConfig['stopdate'] = '2013-08-29 00:00:00'

After modifying the setting for this script you can create and run the experiment by doing the following:

# navigate to the repositories folder
cd $HOME/repositories/HELICS-Use-Cases/PNNL-Real-Time-Transactive-Energy/modificationScripts

# run scripts to populate feeders
python populateFeeders.py

# execute experiment
cd ../experiments/populateExample
./runAll.sh