Enhancement of modeling environment for power distribution network in Gridlab-D on Emacs

Gridlad-D is an open source simulation software for modeling electric power distribution network. The software has about 9 modules, 181 classess and more than 2402 properties. Although the software is versatile, however modeling of a network could be cumbersome when one is faced with definition of properties of network components. In this work a scheme for auto-completion and syntax highlight of keyword, variables and numerical values was developed for Gridlab-D in Emacs. The result shows that there is a substantial improvement in productivity when Gridlab-D is used with the proposed modeling enhancement scheme.

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