No abstract

No abstract

No abstract

No abstract

No abstract

No abstract

No abstract

The future of OPFs is as bright as ever. Engineers continue to find new uses for those programs. However, they are still only used by a minority. Thus, the challenge to OPFs is to become as popular and as easy to use as conventional power flows. This note examines what power engineers are using off-line OPFs for, what shortcomings they are encountering, and what solutions there could be to these problems. OPF Uses In general, OPFs are applicable when a) studying a problem that requires interactive use of conventional power flows, and