Feature Request: HELM (Holomorphic Embedding Load-flow Method)

[bergkvist]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holomorphic_embedding_load_flow_method

This is great for a real-time grid monitoring system, because convergence is guaranteed if a solution exists (in contrast to Newton-Rhapson Powerflow).

[BDonnot]

Hello,

This feature is more or less planned in a near future. Because, well, we are also interested in this convergence properties 😊

If you want a powerflow (might be slower than lightsim I didn't check) with the helm method feel free to check https://github.com/SanPen/GridCal: they implemented it 😊

Note however than lightsim2grid comes with some restrictions (see the disclaimer) and that using it outside of a research context (for example for real grid real time monitoring) is probably not the best idea.

And even for research purpose, lightsim is probably not the best tool to make research about power system themselves (there are way better solver for that). It is rather suited to include some basic modeling of power systems into other research topics (eg. decision making, sequential decisions making, machine learning, etc), or at least this is why we developed it.

Benjamin