GridLAB-D is a research simulator developed by the US Department of Energy and used to study future electricity distribution systems. High Performance Agent-based Simulation with GridLAB-D (HiPAS GridLAB-D) is a commercial-grade high-performance version of this software developed for four California use-cases: load electrification, distributed resource integration hosting capacity, tariff design, and distribution system resilience. These use-cases address California’s climate change goals, including electricity infrastructure decarbonization and response to climate change impacts on electricity distribution system infrastructure.
HiPAS GridLAB-D is as an open-source product available free-of-charge for users, and easily installed on the most widely used computing platforms. Software support and maintenance infrastructure is open to contributors and administered by professional software engineers in consultation with experienced electrical and mechanical engineers.
Key results:
Achievement of 97.5 percent success rate in automatic conversion from Cyme (software that models the distribution system) models.
Simulation speed tests approximately 180 times faster than the US Department of Energy version.
Significant reductions in cloud operating costs, including 94 percent reduction in storage, and more than 99 percent reductions in runtime and computing costs.
Linux Foundation Energy, an open-source foundation focused on the power systems sector, adopted HiPAS GridLAB-D and hosts it within the Linux Foundation’s neutral, collaborative community to build the shared digital investments that are transforming the world's relationship to energy.
