View and simulate GridKit power-system cases in VS Code.
Install GridKit Studio from the Marketplace, then open any *.case.json file. Requires VS Code 1.140 or later and WebGPU.
Studio runs GridKit from an install or from a container image.
Install. Set the folder GridKit is installed in. Leave it empty if GridKit is on your PATH.
"gridkitStudio.gridkitPath": "/opt/gridkit"Image. Pull the image with Docker or Podman. It is the default, so the setting only changes for another image.
docker pull ghcr.io/birchfieldresearchgroup/gridkit:develop-perf"gridkitStudio.gridkitImage": "ghcr.io/birchfieldresearchgroup/gridkit:develop-perf"Right-click a *.solver.json and choose Run Dynamic Simulation. GridKit runs in the solver file's folder, the same as it would from a shell, and the Monitor plots what it writes.
- Monitored Signals shows what the case records. Right-click a signal there to plot it, or to map it onto the network.
- Show Last Results on a solver file shows what its last run wrote, and Run Simulation Again in the Monitor runs it again.
- Open Results… in the Monitor shows any other CSV GridKit wrote.
- Network view
- Case panel for sorting and filtering fields, and mapping them onto the network. What you select in the table shows on the network, and the other way around.
ACTIVSg25k during a fault, with voltage magnitude shown as color and height
- Dynamic simulation from a solver file's menu
- Monitor for plotting and playing back signals
IEEE39 during a fault, with voltage magnitude on the network and in the Monitor
- Image export to PNG and video export to MP4/H.264
Luke Lowery, PhD student in the Birchfield Research Group at Texas A&M University · Google Scholar · ORCID
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Uses GridKit from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and cases from the Texas A&M Electric Grid Test Case Repository.