Alby’s Status Report for Mar 23

Accomplishments This Week:

  • Added renewable generators as negative PQ loads within the grid models and verified correct modification of powers at each period.
  • Rewrote battery Lb and Bt equation stamps to explicitly define all terms and avoid confusion from cancelled out terms.
  • Added the codebase to an EC2 instance and setup a working optimizer environment
  • Created a parser wrapper script that provides a dictionary of the grid model for easy accessibility by the web app.

Challenges Encountered:

  • Battery lambda gradient no longer converges with correct Lb equation stamp due to numerical tolerance issues.

Next Steps:

  • Fix numerical tolerance issues and investigate multi-period convergence across multiple epochs
  • Produce more example grid models to test the webapp
  • Further test the modifications of PQ loads to find limits
  • Add line-current/power functions to lines class, add stamps to infeasibility, and verify correctness by running a simulation with changing powers
  • Create an output function that generates a datastructure containing relevant optimization outputs for each period.
    • line powers
    • generation powers
    • total generation
    • total cost
    • maximum and minimum voltages
    • battery state of charge
    • battery charge rate

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