DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14902602
title: Popular Open Source Libraries for Power System Analysis

description: 📈 Trending Up

Projects that have a higher project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons, such as increased downloads or code activity.



<b><a href="https://developers.google.com/optimization/">OR-Tools</a></b> (🥇40 ·  ⭐ 12K · 📈) - Google Optimization Tools. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3nYMfla">Apache-2</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/python.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/c.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/java.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://github.com/google/or-tools">Xopt</a></b> (🥇38 ·  ⭐ 12K · 📈) - Flexible high-level optimization in Python. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3postzC">MPL-2.0</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/python.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/pypi.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/anaconda.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://www.pyomo.org">Pyomo</a></b> (🥇38 ·  ⭐ 2.1K · 📈) - Python-based Optimization Modeling Language. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3aKzpTv">BSD-3</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/pypi.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/anaconda.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/jupyter.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/python.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://github.com/google/or-tools">Tulip</a></b> (🥈37 ·  ⭐ 12K · 📈) - Interior-point solver in pure Julia. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3postzC">MPL-2.0</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/julia.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="http://faraday1.ucd.ie/psat.html">PSAT</a></b> (🥉4 ·  ⭐ 11 · 💤) - Power System Analysis Toolbox by Federico Milano. <code><a href="https://tldrlegal.com/search?q=GPL">❗️GPL</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/octave.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>


📉 Trending Down

Projects that have a lower project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons such as decreased downloads or code activity.



<b><a href="https://www.powsybl.org">PyPowSyBl</a></b> (🥈22 ·  ⭐ 63 · 📉) - A PowSyBl and Python integration. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3postzC">MPL-2.0</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/pypi.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/python.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/java.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/jupyter.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://github.com/mzy2240/ESA">Easy SimAuto</a></b> (🥈15 ·  ⭐ 45 · 📉) - Python interface to PowerWorld. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3nYMfla">Apache-2</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/pypi.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/python.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://ltb.curent.org/">LTB AMS</a></b> (🥉15 ·  ⭐ 9 · 📉) - Scheduling Modeling and Simulation; CURENT LTB. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/2M0xdwT">❗️GPL-3.0</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/azure.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/pypi.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/anaconda.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/jupyter.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/python.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://www.epri.com/OpenDER">OpenDER</a></b> (🥈14 ·  ⭐ 58 · 📉) - Inverter-based DER simulation. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3aKzpTv">BSD-3</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/pypi.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/jupyter.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/python.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://github.com/dsgrid/dsgrid">dsgrid</a></b> (🥉14 ·  ⭐ 26 · 📉) - Demand-side grid projects, datasets and queries. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3aKzpTv">BSD-3</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/python.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>


➕ Added Projects

Projects that were recently added to this best-of list.



<b><a href="https://pypsa-meets-earth.github.io/">PyPSA-Earth</a></b> (🥈22 ·  ⭐ 250 · ➕) - Open optimisation model for study energy system.. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3pwmjO5">❗️AGPL-3.0</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/python.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://dss-extensions.org/">AltDSS/DSS C-API</a></b> (🥈16 ·  ⭐ 34 · ➕) - a plain C interface to OpenDSS. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3aKzpTv">BSD-3</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://dss-extensions.org/">AltDSS-Python</a></b> (🥈14 ·  ⭐ 11 · ➕) - Modern Python bindings for an alternative.. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3aKzpTv">BSD-3</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/pypi.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/python.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/jupyter.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://dss-extensions.org/">OpenDSSDirect.jl</a></b> (🥈13 ·  ⭐ 27 · ➕) - Cross-platform Julia interface to OpenDSS. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/34MBwT8">MIT</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/julia.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://pypsa-meets-earth.github.io/">PyPSA-Distribution</a></b> (🥉12 ·  ⭐ 17 · ➕) - Multi-energy model for small scale applications in.. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/2M0xdwT">❗️GPL-3.0</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/python.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://dss-extensions.org/">DSS MATLAB</a></b> (🥉9 ·  ⭐ 11 · ➕) - MATLAB interface to OpenDSS. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3aKzpTv">BSD-3</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/octave.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://dss-extensions.org/">DSS Sharp</a></b> (🥉8 ·  ⭐ 9 · ➕) - C#/.NET wrapper library for DSS C-API. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/3aKzpTv">BSD-3</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/github.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>

<b><a href="https://sites.ecse.rpi.edu/~chowj/">PST</a></b> (🥉4 ·  ⭐ 5 · 💤) - Power System Toolbox from Dr. Joe H. Chow. <code><a href="http://bit.ly/34MBwT8">MIT</a></code> <code><img src="https://github.com/jinningwang/best-of-ps/blob/develop/config/icons/octave.ico" style="display:inline;" width="13" height="13"></code>