Examples and problems accompanying Daniel Kirschen's Power Systems Textbook

This repository contains Jupyter notebooks that allow for interactive exploration into selected examples and problems included in Daniel Kirschen's Power Systems textbook. These notebooks use Los Alamos National Laboratory's PowerModels.jl package for power systems simulation and computation. This repository also contains sample data to accompany the selected examples and problems included in the textbook.

To use the Jupyter notebooks included in this repository, the following steps must be followed:

1. Install Python. Jupyter notebooks are based in Python, meaning that Python must be installed. If your operating system is MacOS or Linux, the system Python should be sufficient. If you do not have Python installed, the latest version of Python 3 can be installed here. Make sure that Python is added to your PATH.

   NOTE: With Python 3.12.0 being released very recently, wheels may not be available for all of the libraries needed to set up the Jupyter notebook interface. Therefore, for new installations, we recommend installing the latest version of Python 3.10. For existing installations, we anticipate other minor versions of Python 3 to be sufficient for operating this workflow.

2. Install Jupyter notebooks. Open command line or terminal and run the following:

   python -m pip install --upgrade pip
   python -m pip install notebook

   Depending on how Python 3 has been added to your PATH, instances of python shown above may be replaced with python3. The Jupyter notebook interface will now be able to be opened in your browser by running the following in command line or terminal:

   jupyter notebook

3. Install Julia. To be compatible with PowerModels.jl, the installed version of Julia must be at least version 1.6 or greater. Julia can be installed for different operating systems here. Make sure that Julia is added to your PATH.

4. Install the IJulia package. The IJulia package is required to ensure that the Julia kernel is accessible in Jupyter notebooks. To install the IJulia package, open the Julia REPL, which is installed when Julia is installed, type ] to open the Julia REPL's package manager mode, and run the following:

   add IJulia

5. Clone this repository locally. Git can be used to clone the repository or a .zip file of the repository can be downloaded and extracted. Using Git through the command line or terminal, clone the repository as follows:

   git clone https://github.com/Power-Systems-Textbook/TextbookSimulations.git

   If you do not have Git installed on your machine, you can install it by following instructions here. Alternatively, a .zip file of the repository can be downloaded here and extracted to the directory of your choosing.

6. Activate and instantiate the project environment. Using the Julia REPL, navigate to the local directory in which this repository is downloaded. Type ] in the Julia REPL to open the Julia REPL's package manager mode, and run the following to ensure the necessary packages for the project environment are installed:

   activate .
   instantiate
   

After following the Installation Guide described above, the notebooks included in this repository will be able to be opened. To do so, first open the Jupyter notebook interface running the following the command line or terminal:

jupyter notebook

Within the Jupyter notebook interface, which should open in your browser, navigate to the particular folder within this repository to find the desired notebook.