Exploiting cloud computing for power system analysis

Cloud computing provides a new paradigm for easy access to larger scale computing resources over the Internet, thus offering an alternative solution to huge data processing and heavy computational work in power system. In this paper, InterPSS Cloud Edition, a cloud computing based platform for power system analysis, is set up by InterPSS development team using Google App Engine (GAE). At the current release, it provides mainly three functions including load flow, contingency analysis and ODM (Open Data Model) power system simulation data transformation services, and it is accessible anywhere around the world, 24×7, via internet. An overview of this project is given and tests regarding its functionalities are presented. Finally, the future applications and challenges of exploiting cloud computing for power system analysis are discussed.