matpower-pip: A Python Package for Easy Access to MATPOWER Power System Simulation Package

This package is intended to make MATPOWER installable from PyPI. We did not change anything from MATPOWER package, instead, we used a copy of MATPOWER (currently Version 8.1) and wrapped it as python package published on PyPI. Use this package with mypower (the recommended way) or oct2py to run MATPOWER using octave client. matlab.engine is also supported. For the latest docs, read README on GitHub.

This project is also listed on related links on MATPOWER official website. Please visit that site to find other useful resources.

For downloading MATPOWER only (maybe you will run it using matlab.engine or any other method, or simply want an easy MATPOWER downloader):

pip install matpower

For callable matpower via oct2py (require octave on environment system PATH). You can follow the oct2py instalation tutorial in mypower repository.

See notebooks/ for complete examples. All examples should be compatible with Google Colab.

If oct2py or matlab.engine is installed, matpower.start_instance can be used to run octave or MATLAB with MATPOWER path added. The default engine is octave. You also can use mypower for added functionality as shown in mypower tutorial.

from matpower import start_instance

m = start_instance()
m.runpf() 

from matpower import start_instance

m = start_instance()
mpc = m.eval('case9', verbose=False)
mpc = m.runpf(mpc)

from matpower import Matpower

with Matpower(engine='octave') as m:  # run as context manager
    mpc = m.eval('case9', verbose=False)
    mpc = m.runpf(mpc)

print(m._engine is None)  # engine cleanly terminated

from matpower import path_matpower

print(path_matpower) # matpower installation location

Since mpc = m.runopf() will make mpc contain unsupported <object opf_model>, we can avoid it by requesting a maximum number of outputs using nout='max_nout' in octave.

from matpower import start_instance

m = start_instance()

mpc = m.loadcase('case9')
mpopt = m.mpoption('verbose', 2)
[baseMVA, bus, gen, gencost, branch, f, success, et] = m.runopf(mpc, mpopt, nout='max_nout')

Or we can remove unsupported objects.

from matpower import start_instance

m = start_instance()

mpc = m.loadcase('case9')
mpopt = m.mpoption('verbose', 2)
m.push("_mpopt", mpopt)
m.push("_mpc", mpc, verbose=False)

m.eval("_r1 = runopf(_mpc, _mpopt);", verbose=False)

# `_r1` containts unsupported `<object opf_model>`, needs to be removed first
m.eval(
    """
    _r1.raw = rmfield(_r1.raw, 'task');
    _r1 = rmfield(_r1, 'om');
    """
)
mpc = m.pull("_r1")

Alternatively, only select values that will be used on python using oct2py .eval method. Combine it with the use of ; to avoid octave print output on running the command.

# import start_instance to start matpower instance
from matpower import start_instance

# start instance
m = start_instance()

m.eval(
    """
    mpopt = mpoption('verbose', 2);
    mpc = loadcase('case9');
    _r1 = runopf(mpc, mpopt);
    """
)

# fech data to python (.eval is used because .pull is not working in acessing field)
r1_mpc = m.eval(
    "struct("
    " 'baseMVA', _r1.baseMVA, 'version', _r1.version, 'bus', _r1.bus, 'gen', _r1.gen,"
    " 'branch', _r1.branch, 'gencost', _r1.gencost);"
)

# modify variable if necessary
[GEN_BUS, PG, QG, QMAX, QMIN, VG, MBASE, GEN_STATUS, PMAX, PMIN, MU_PMAX, 
 MU_PMIN, MU_QMAX, MU_QMIN, PC1, PC2, QC1MIN, QC1MAX, QC2MIN, QC2MAX, 
 RAMP_AGC, RAMP_10, RAMP_30, RAMP_Q, APF] = m.idx_gen(nout='max_nout')
gen_index = 2 # index of generator to be changed
gen_index_ = int(gen_index - 1) # -1 due to python indexing start from 0
PMAX_ = int(PMAX -1) # -1 due to python indexing start from 0
r1_mpc['gen'][gen_index_,PMAX_] = 110 # in this example, we modify PMAX to be 110

[PQ, PV, REF, NONE, BUS_I, BUS_TYPE, PD, QD, GS, BS, 
 BUS_AREA, VM, VA, BASE_KV, ZONE, VMAX, VMIN, LAM_P, 
 LAM_Q, MU_VMAX, MU_VMIN] = m.idx_bus(nout='max_nout')
bus_index = 7 # index of bus to be changed
bus_index_ = int(bus_index - 1) # -1 due to python indexing start from 0
PD_ = int(PD-1) # -1 due to python indexing start from 0
r1_mpc['bus'][bus_index_,int(PD-1)] = 80 # in this example, we modify PD to be 150

# push back value to octave client
m.push('mpc', r1_mpc) # push r1_mpc in python to mpc in octave

# test if we can retrive pushed value
mpc = m.pull('mpc')

# test if our pushed variable can be used
m.eval("_r1 = runopf(mpc, mpopt);")

matpower-pip also support using matlab.engine.

from matpower import start_instance

m = start_instance(engine='matlab') # specify using `matlab.engine` instead of `oct2py`
mpc = m.runpf('case5', nargout=0)

1. m.runopf() will make mpc contain unsupported <object opf_model>. See: MATPOWER/matpower#134 (comment)

   Impacted case:

   _r1 = m.runopf(mpc)

   Solution:

   m.push('mpc', mpc)
   r1_mpc = m.eval(
       """
       mpopt = mpoption('verbose', 2);
       _r1 = runopf(mpc, mpopt);
       """
   
       "struct("
       " 'baseMVA', _r1.baseMVA, 'version', _r1.version, 'bus', _r1.bus, 'gen', _r1.gen,"
       " 'branch', _r1.branch, 'gencost', _r1.gencost);"
   )

This package maintains MATPOWER version with an added version mark, i.e. MATPOWER 8.1 becomes 8.1.0.x.x.x where the .x.x.x comes from matpower-pip versioning. The matpower-pip versioning is not released on pypi since matpower-pip is restricted for development only (and development should use git instead).

1. conda and docker installation that includes octave-cli installation.

• Muhammad Yasirroni - yasirroni

We do request that publications derived from the use of matpower-pip explicitly acknowledge that fact by including all related MATPOWER publications and the following citation:

M. Yasirroni, Sarjiya, and L. M. Putranto, "matpower-pip: A Python Package for Easy Access to MATPOWER Power System Simulation Package," [Online]. Available: https://github.com/yasirroni/matpower-pip.

M. Yasirroni, Sarjiya, and L. M. Putranto, "matpower-pip". Zenodo, Jun. 13, 2024. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.11626845.

@misc{matpower-pip,
  author       = {Yasirroni, M. and Sarjiya and Putranto, L. M.},
  title        = {matpower-pip: A Python Package for Easy Access to MATPOWER Power System Simulation Package},
  year         = {2023},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/yasirroni/matpower-pip}},
}

@software{yasirroni_2024_11626845,
  author       = {Yasirroni, Muhammad and
                  Sarjiya, Sarjiya and
                  Putranto, Lesnanto Multa},
  title        = {matpower-pip},
  month        = jun,
  year         = 2024,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {8.0.0.2.1.8},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.11626845},
  url          = {\url{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11626845}}
}

If a journal publication from the author appears soon should be cited instead.

See the CONTRIBUTING.md.

This repository was supported by the Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada under the supervision of Mr. Sarjiya. If you use this package, we would be very glad if you cite any relevant publication under Mr. Sarjiya's name that can be found in the semantic scholar or IEEE in the meantime, since publication related to this repository is ongoing. This work is also partly motivated after I found out that oct2py supports running octave client from python, but the only implementation for running MATPOWER that I know is oct2pypower which requires docker and is not newbie-friendly. Nevertheless, I would like to say thank you to all the people who have contributed to oct2py, oct2pypower, and more importantly MATPOWER.