Contingency Results: Text File Report Writing

These options are all available on the Contingency Analysis Dialog under the Results Tab.

Simulator can produce a report that details the results of the contingency analysis. The Report Writing Tab allows you to control the content and appearance of the report. By default, the report will identify each contingency, whether or not it could be solved, and what violations resulted from it. By selecting options on this tab, you can include additional information in the report.

Optional Report Contents

Case Summary

The case summary prints the Case Description and then tallies the number of different power system components in the model.

Option Settings

If this item is checked, the report will list each of the options selected on the Options Tab of the Contingency Analysis Dialog.

Monitored Areas, Monitored Zones

If either of these items is checked, the report will identify the areas and/or zones in which Simulator has looked for limit violations, and over what voltage ranges.

Line Flow, Interface Flow, and Bus Voltage Extremes

If one of these items is checked, the report will list the worst-case line flows or voltages seen for each monitored element during the contingency analysis. None, one, two, or all three of these can be chosen at one time.

Base Case Outages

If this item is checked, the report will list the limit violations that existed in the Base Case.

All

Selecting this option will select all of the other options.

Identify buses by

This setting determines how the buses are listed in the data stored in the report. You can choose to have the buses displayed by number or name only, or by a combination of the number and name. You can also choose to identify with nominal voltage by checking the box labeled Identify with Nominal Voltage.

Show the actions involved in each contingency

If this box is checked, the definition of each contingency will be included in the report. The definition of each contingency simply identifies the actions that were implemented as part of the contingency.

Report only contingencies that cause violations

Checking this option will cause only the contingencies that cause violations to be shown in the report. Any contingency that did not cause a violation will not be included in the report. This option is useful if you wish to limit the size of the contingency report.

Report only limit type with violations for each contingency

Checking this option will result in reporting only the contingency violations of the type checked in the Limit Type Violations to Include box.

Report Inactive Violations and show all Rating Sets

When this box is checked, all violations that are normally being ignored during the contingency analysis (for example, base case violations) will be written to the report. Included with this option is the ability to show the different rating sets for each violated element.

Limit Type Violations to Include

Check the boxes of the types of violations you would like to be written to the report. This corresponds to the Report only limit type with violations for each contingency option above.

Maximum Violations of a single type to report

Enter the value of the maximum number of violations of a single type to be written to the report.

Create database-friendly tables

Checking this box will create three additional files for viewing contingency results: FILENAME_ctgelem, FILENAME_ctgviol, and FILENAME_ctgstat where FILENAME is the name of the file where the main report is saved. The user can choose which symbol to use to separate the columns by choosing a delimiting symbol. These files can be easily imported into a database or spreadsheet program such as Access or Excel as delimited text files, where they can be analyzed more rigorously. These files will be automatically created and saved in the same folder as the main report.

Produce Report

Clicking this button will open a Save Dialog for selecting the file to which the report should be written. The file is saved as a text file (*.txt). Enter the file path and name and click Save to write the report to the selected file. After saving the file, a dialog will provide the option of viewing the report file immediately.