PanSuite: A free simulation environment for the analysis of hybrid electrical power systems

In many engineering domains, complex systems are composed of several interconnected and interacting parts that are modeled and analyzed in different ways. This is the case, for instance, of modern power systems, which are commonly labeled as "hybrid "for this very reason. This heterogeneity has triggered the development of numerical tools capable of simulating the different parts making up a hybrid system. Often, however, these tools either tackle a very specific aspect of power systems analysis (e.g., power flow computation), or are composed of interacting parts that rely on heuristics for their correct functioning. In this paper we describe pan, a free simulator developed in our group combining very high numerical efficiency with a vast choice of simulation algorithms suited for power system analysis. We also introduce three recently developed open -source interfaces to pan written in the MATLAB, Python, and Julia programming languages, which greatly reduce development times and allow the user to incorporate power system analysis into extended simulation and analysis workflows. Together, these tools make up pansuite.