Applications of DMS in the atlantide project: Models and tools

The paper presents some significant results of an exstensive modelling activity being carried out within ATLANTIDE, an on-going Italian Research Project, for studying the active distribution networks under different evolutionary scenarios. The attention is focused on the DMS and its integration with Active Demand side integration with particular reference to urban distribution networks. The results confirm that the developed models, which will be soon made available to the ATLANTIDE community for use with common power flow software packages, are well suited for simulating the operation of modern distribution management systems.