Timeseries Example

Common Use Case

A common use case is to add two const controller to the grid to update the P values of loads and static generators. The p_mw values for each time step are stored in a data source, which is defined by the class DataSource. This class holds a pandas DataFrame which contains the values for each element and time step. The const controller gets the data source, reads p_mw values from it and writes the corresponding ones to each sgen / load prior to the power flow calculation. After running the power flow calculation, results for each time steps are written by the output writer class OutputWriter to excel, csv, json or pickle files.

Simulating Time Series

First you need a DataSource to store the p_mw values of sgens or loads. For example multiple CSV-files can be used to provide the values for each element and time step. Each column contains a profile with a value for each time step in the corresponding row. Here is a schematic example for a grid with N static generators and T time steps:

	0	1	—	N-1	N
0	P0 sgen0	P0 sgen1	—	P0 sgen N-1	P0 sgen N
1	P1 sgen0	P1 sgen1	—	P1 sgen N-1	P1 sgen N
2	P2 sgen0	P2 sgen1	—	P2 sgen N-1	P2 sgen N
—	—	—	—	—	—
T-1	P T-1 sgen0	P T-1 sgen1	—	P T-1 sgen N-1	P T-1 sgen N
T	P T sgen0	P T sgen1	—	P T sgen N-1	P T sgen N

This structure is saved to a *.csv file and can be read by pandas and passed to the DataSource constructor like so:

import pandas as pd
import pandapower as pp
import control
import timeseries

# load a pandapower network
net = pp.networks.mv_oberrhein(scenario='generation')

# load your timeseries file (here csv file)
df = pd.read_csv("sgen_timeseries.csv")
# create the data source from it
ds = timeseries.DataFrame(df)

# initialising ConstControl controller to update values of the regenerative generators ("sgen" elements)
# the element_index specifies which elements to update (here all sgens in the net since net.sgen.index is passed)
# the controlled variable is "p_mw"
# the profile_name are the columns in the csv file (here this is also equal to the sgen indices 0-N )
const_sgen = control.ConstControl(net, element='sgen', element_index=net.sgen.index,
                                    variable='p_mw',  data_source=ds, profile_name=net.sgen.index)

# do the same for loads
df = pd.read_csv("load_timeseries.csv")
ds = timeseries.DataFrame(df)
const_load = control.ConstControl(net, element='load', element_index=net.load.index,
                                    variable='p_mw',  data_source=ds, profile_name=net.load.index)

# starting the timeseries simulation for one day -> 96 15 min values.
timeseries.run_timeseries(net, time_steps=(0, 95))

We created a DataSource and passed it to the ConstControl, while also providing the name of the P-profile. To get the time series calculation results and save it to separate files we build an OutputWriter.

# initialising the outputwriter to save data to the current folder
ow = timeseries.OutputWriter(net, output_path="./", output_file_type=".xlsx")
# adding vm_pu of all buses and line_loading in percent of all lines as outputs to be stored
ow.log_variable('res_bus', 'vm_pu')
ow.log_variable('res_line', 'loading_percent')

# starting the timeseries simulation for one day -> 96 15 min values.
timeseries.run_timeseries(net, time_steps=(0,95))

We created an OutputWriter and stored the voltage magnitude vm_pu for each bus and the line loading in percent loading_percent for every line to separate excel files.