This directory contains several realistic transmission grid models, including
- a large model of continental Europe, with more than 4000 buses, 8000 lines, and 800 generators, and
- smaller models of individual countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland) based on the European one.
The models are given in the PowerModels format, which is itself derived from the MatPower file format. In addition to the standard data structure, our models contain a few additional fields such as:
- line susceptances needed for DC power flow computations;
- for some generators, a list of names matching those used in the ENTSO-E database, so that actual production data can be used when needed;
- an aggregated production type to simplify the grouping of generators by type;
- for each generator, an expected average production value computed from actual data.
The European model is based on PanTaGruEl, a model of the transmission grid of continental Europe, available as a Julia package developed by Laurent Pagnier.
PanTaGruEl can also be found in the Zenodo data repository, and it has been documented in the publications
- L. Pagnier, P. Jacquod, Inertia location and slow network modes determine disturbance propagation in large-scale power grids, PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213550 (2019), and
- M. Tyloo, L. Pagnier, P. Jacquod, The Key Player Problem in Complex Oscillator Networks and Electric Power Grids, Science Advances 5(11): eaaw8359 (2019) arXiv:1810.09694.
The notebooks used to generate the model can be found in the src directory.