Power Grid Investment Module (PowerGIM)

PowerGIM is a Python package for stochastic power system expansion planning that can consider both transmission and generator investments in a two-stage formulation with uncertain parameters.

Getting started

• (does not work) Install latest PowerGIM release from PyPi:

pip install powergim

User guide and examples

The online user guide gives more information about how to specify input data and run a simulation case.

• User guide

Local installation

Prerequisite:

• Poetry
• Pre-commit
• A MILP solver, e.g. the free CBC solver. Clone or download the code and install it as a python package.
• A working MPI implementation, preferably supporting MPI-3 and built with shared/dynamic libraries

Install dependencies

1. git clone git@github.com:powergim/powergim.git
2. cd powergim
3. poetry install --no-root --no-root to not install the package itself, only the dependencies.
4. poetry shell
5. poetry run pytest tests

Installation trhough Anaconda Prompt (Windows)

1. Clone/fork the github powergim repository.
2. From anaconda prompt, change directory to the local clone/fork of powergim cd <local-powergim-folder>
3. Install using pip install -e .

GitHub Actions Pipelines

These pipelines are defined:

1. Build: Building and testing on multiple OS and python versions. Triggered on any push to GitHub.

Contribute

You are welcome to contribute to the improvement of the code.

• Use Issues to describe and track needed improvements and bug fixes
• Use branches for development and pull requests to merge into main
• Use Pre-commit hooks

Contact

Harald G Svendsen
SINTEF Energy Research