The MATPOWER team would like to acknowledge the support of the numerous research grants and contracts that have contributed directly and indirectly to the development of MATPOWER over the years. This includes funding from the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC), the U.S. Department of Energy1, the National Science Foundation2, ARPA-E3 and others.
We would also like to acknowledge contributions from the many individuals who have helped make MATPOWER what it is today. First we want to acknowledge the valuable input and support of Bob Thomas, especially throughout the early development of MATPOWER. We thank other early contributors to MATPOWER including Chris DeMarco, one of our PSERC associates, for the technique for building derivatives of complex matrix expressions and Bruce Wollenberg for all of his suggestions for improvements to version 1. The enhanced output functionality introduced in version 2.0 is primarily due to his input.
Over the years, many others have made large and small contributions to MATPOWER, with code for new features, bug fixes, new data files, testing time, bug reports and suggestions. We are grateful to all of you, and want to highlight two significant contributors. Thanks to Roman Korab for data for the Polish system case file which became one of the first widely available large-scale transmission system cases to be easily accessible to the public. And thanks to Shrirang Abhyankar for all of his work on the continuation power flow implementation.
Last but not least, thanks to all of the many users who, by using MATPOWER in their own work, have helped to extend the contribution of MATPOWER to the field of power systems far beyond what we could do on our own.
1Supported in part by the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS) and the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Transmission Reliability Program of the U.S. Department of Energy under the National Energy Technology Laboratory Cooperative Agreement No. DE-FC26-09NT43321.
2This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 0532744, 1642341 and 1931421. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
3Supported in part by the “Synthetic Data for Power Grid R&D” project under the ARPA-E GRID DATA program.