This set of slides was presented at Congrès International des Réseaux Electriques de Distribution (CIRED) on June 8-11, 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic.
The presentation introduces the open source software for simulating active distribution systems, which includes the following topics:
• Distribution System Simulator (DSS) was developed to provide a very flexible research platform and a foundation for special distribution analysis applications such as distributed generation (DG) analysis
• Fills gaps left by other distribution system analysis tools
• Study new approaches to distribution system analysis