342-Node Low Voltage Network Test System

Abstract

The majority of end-use customers in North America are served by radially operated distribution feeders. But in areas where there is a high load density and a need for very high reliability, Low Voltage Network (LVN) systems have been built. LVNs are fundamentally different in design and operation from typical radial distribution feeders and these differences require different methods for computational analysis. The network test system is representative of low voltage network systems that are deployed in urban cores in North America. The power system in an urban core and can be a combination of spot networks and grid networks. Note that this system is NOT an actual circuit, but rather representative of the LVN systems.

Example model: Example model provided by Kevin Schneider in GridLAB-D format (used for validation).