Caldera and OpenDSS co-simulation platform using HELICS
Caldera Grid enables modeling EV charging on the electric grid. Caldera Grid cosimulation platform is built using HELICS (Hierarchical Engine for Large Scale Infrastructure Co-simulation) and cosimulates Caldera ICM with OpenDSS. The platfrom also provides an interface to apply custom control strategies to EV charge events.
Caldera Grid depends on C++ compiler, git, cmake, python and pybind11 to compile.
Get a copy of Caldera ICM.
git clone https://hpcgitlab.hpc.inl.gov/caldera_charge/caldera_charge_grid.git
If you are interested in the most up to date version of Caldera ICM, the development version is available in the develop branch.
git switch develop
To install Caldera Grid using cmake
cd caldera_charge_grid
mkdir build
cmake -DPROJECT=<PROJECT_NAME> -DICM=<ON/OFF> ../
make
make install
If cmake cannot find C++ compiler, python or pybind11. They need to be pointed to its installed paths to find them. Refer to pybind11 and cmake documentations.
Caldera Grid compiles the Caldera ICM submodule and installs compiled python libraries in the libs/ folder.
-DPROJECT flag is used to specify the project specific EV-EVSE models to be used. Options are DirectXFC, eMosaic and EVs_at_Risk. -DICM flag turns ON/OFF compiling Caldera_ICM lib. Please refer to Caldera ICM project for more information with respect to Caldera ICM compilation.
Please refer to usage documentation to learn on how to use the tool.
start_execution.py is set up to run a simple example of EVs charging on the IEEE 34 node test feeder.
- Don Scoffield, Senior Research Engineer, Idaho National Laboratory
- Manoj Sundarrajan, Research Software Developer, Idaho National Laboratory
For open source projects, say how it is licensed.