Welcome

Pylon is a port of MATPOWER to the Python programming language. Its purpose is to provide a simple yet powerful tool for Power Engineering that is not tied to proprietary software and can be used and extended with ease.

Pylon’s features currently include:

• DC and AC (Newton’s and Fast Decoupled method) power flow,
• DC and AC optimal power flow and
• PSS/E, MATPOWER and PSAT case serialization and de-serialization.

Quick start

With Python and setuptools installed, run:

$ easy_install pylon

Pylon will attempt to recognise the format of a data file, solve the AC power flow problem and output a ReStructuredText report by default:

$ pylon case.raw

Full details of the command line options are available:

$ pylon --help

Refer to the documentation for detailed usage information.

Credits

Pylon is developed by Richard Lincoln (r.w.lincoln@gmail.com).

Pylon is translated from MATPOWER by R. D. Zimmerman, C. E. Murillo-Sanchez & D. Gan.

Pylon is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through Grant GR/T28836/01.