Solar train: GridLAB-D class
Energy consumption: GridLAB-D class 
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Both solar train and Energy consumption are components of a C++ project developed for use by Gridlab-D simulation engine.

For details, see docs/Report.docx.

Solar train and Energy consumption are published on Github at https://github.com/project-hephaestus/electric_train;

Dependencies
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- The IDE which is used is the Visual Studio

By default, the build tooling does not build any libraries, that solar train requires. To build the necessary libraries see hephaestus/third_party and download "cppunit-1.12.0.tar.gz". Unzip and run the downloaded project (for more details see the hephaestus/third_party/install_cppunit) in order to create the library. Then add this library into your project. Also, you have to download powerflow and core folders from https://github.com/project-hephaestus/electric_train and place them in the same directory that you have already settle the generators folder that contains the solar train and energy consumption classes.

- GridLAB-D simulation engine 

  Grab gridlabd-2.2.0-win32.exe from:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/gridlab-d/files/

  Run the .exe file

- additional platform specific dependencies:

  Windows operating system
    • MinGW
    • GNUPlot
Both are included in the .exe file. You just need to select them during the installation procedure
    
-Run an example
  
After the installation of GridLAB-D has completed, download the contents of examples folder and place them to the same directory.Compile the project that generators folder contains with visual studio and replace the generators.dll (C:\Program Files\GridLAB-D\lib) with the generators.dll that is produced by the visual studio. Open the GridLAB-D console, get into the directory where the downloaded items have been placed and run the example.glm (write in the command line: gridlabd example.glm). Then, following the same procedure, run the example2.glm.Finally you can modify the station.txt that defines the position of the stations (in terms of klm) and the elevation.player (the timestamps in this file must be correlated with the simulation time) that contains the elevation of the route in order to run your own examples.