Parallelising calculations in electric power distribution networks

CART (Computer Aided Reticulation of Townships) is a software package used for the design of radial, electrical power distribution networks. Having many transformers and large numbers of consumers in the distribution network significantly increases computation time. A distributed, service-based platform is being developed, with parallelisation functionality for CART as the flagship service. The system will be used to parallelise CART´s voltage and current calculations for use in the design of much larger networks, possibly of metropolitan scale. Eventually, more complex scenarios will be addressed, including real-time calculation and simulation of lightning and transient faults and performance testing and optimisation of existing power distribution networks.