MATPOWER Documentation

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Overview

The documentation for MATPOWER and its related packages are distributed across several manuals and How To Guides. The goal is to make all of this documentation available in HTML format, with some of the manuals available in PDF format as well. To facilitate this goal, the source for new documentation will be written in reStructured Text format for processing by Sphinx to build the HTML and PDF versions from a single source.

Currently, most of the User’s Manuals are still available only as PDF, built from the legacy LaTeX source.

MATPOWER is a package of free, open-source Matlab-language M-files for solving steady-state power system simulation and optimization problems. It is built on MP-Opt-Model, a package for constructing and solving mathematical programming and optimization problems. MP-Opt-Model in turn relies on MIPS (MATPOWER Interior Point Solver) as a default solver. And MOST (MATPOWER Optimal Scheduling Tool), built on top of MATPOWER, is a framework for solving generalized steady-state electric power scheduling problems. All of them rely on MP-Test as a software testing framework.

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Manuals

• MATPOWER User’s Manual
• MATPOWER Developer’s Manual
• MATPOWER Reference Manual

• MP-Test User’s Manual
• MIPS User’s Manual
• MP-Opt-Model User’s Manual
• MOST User’s Manual

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How To Guides

• How to Create a New Element Type
  • DC Transmission Line
  • Data Model Element
  • Data Model Converter Element
  • Network Model Element
  • Mathematical Model Element
  • Using the New Element
  • See Also
• How to Add an OPF Constraint
  • Function and Derivatives
  • Implementation
  • Using the New Constraint
  • Example
  • See Also
• How to Create an Extension
  • Using the Extension
  • See Also
• How to Run a Three-Phase Power Flow
  • Data Format
  • Example Cases
• How to Build the Documentation
  • Updating the Reference Manual
  • Reference Manual Utility Functions

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