nrel / dss-cosim

Distribution system co-simulation with OpenDSS and DER controls

A sample co-simulation framework using HELICS with federates for a distribution network in OpenDSS and DER controllers.

Installation

Using Anaconda or conda:

1. Create a conda environment with HELICS:

   cd <main path>/DSS_cosim
   conda env create
   

Without using conda:

1. Install HELICS: conda install -c gmlc-tdc helics=2.2
2. Install helics-cli: pip install git+https://github.com/GMLC-TDC/helics-cli.git@python-master#egg=helics-cli
3. Install OpenDSS-wrapper (and OpenDSSDirect.py): pip install git+https://github.com/NREL/OpenDSS-wrapper#egg=OpenDSS-wrapper

Usage

To run the co-simulation:

1. CD to the co-simulation directory: cd <main path>/DSS_cosim
2. Run the command: helics run --path runner.json

By default, results files are saved to <main path>/results/

dss-cosim's Issues

Could Not Execute helics run

Hello,

I was able to complete the installation, and activate the dss_cosim environment in Anaconda console. However, helics commands are not executing in the console.

This is a windows system.

Error when running this example

Error: Process federate1 has failed, killing other processes
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/qhuang/.pyenv/versions/3.10.3/lib/python3.10/threading.py", line 1009, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/Users/qhuang/.pyenv/versions/3.10.3/envs/pycosim/lib/python3.10/site-packages/helics_cli/status_checker.py", line 43, in run
raise HELICSRuntimeError("Error has occurred")
helics_cli.exceptions.HELICSRuntimeError: Error has occurred