A Study of Distribution Power Flow Analysis Using Physically Distributed Processors

With distributed intelligent devices becoming more prevalent throughout the distribution system, distributed control and monitoring schemes become more feasible. The coordination and communication of these devices is essential in order for each of these devices to optimize local control decisions. A simulation platform to accommodate the testing of such systems is then also required. The necessary considerations for distributed processing of distribution system analysis will be presented along with an implementation of a remotely distributed power flow analysis. The distributed power flow method is based on a partitioned model of the distribution system where each partition is simulated remotely and information is communicated between partitions. Network partition models will be presented along with a functioning software architecture to run such distributed processing studies