MATPOWER: Steady-State Operations, Planning, and Analysis Tools for Power Systems Research and Education

This paper presents MATPOWER, a package of MATLAB M-files for solving power flow and optimal power flow problems. It is intended as a simulation tool for researchers and educators that is easy to use and modify. MATPOWER is designed to give the best performance possible while keeping the code simple to understand and modify. The paper describes the network modeling, formulations, and algorithms used in MATPOWER and presents results from a number of test cases illustrating its capabilities.