Release notes

v1.0 Notes

v1.0.0 (2023-04-29)

• Initial release LTB series tools, including ANDES, DiME, and AGVis.

• Improve documentation for LTB.

• Update README.

Our Story So Far [Update 2023-04]

In 2014-2015, the director of CURENT, Dr. Kevin Tomsovic, proposed the idea of creating a closed-loop testbed for power systems research. He appointed Dr. Fran Li to lead the development work of what is now known as the CURENT Large-scale Testbed (LTB) or CLTB.

During the first two years of development, the team built models of the North American power grid, including WECC and reduced EI operation and planning models, with various renewable energy penetration scenarios. They also created a nationwide HVDC overlay and integrated initial versions of a visualizer and data transfer package called DiME into the CLTB platform.

In 2017, the team decided to develop their own dynamic simulation engine called ANDES, which was created by Dr. Hantao Cui and has become a cornerstone package in CLTB. ANDES can now be used as a standalone dynamic simulation tool as well.

Around the same time, newer versions of DiME and the visualizer (now called AGVis) were developed with contributions from Nick West, Nicholas Parsly, and Jinning Wang.