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I'll say exactly what I felt when I used PSSE and fmincon and every other closed-source optimization program for the first time: "Neato, now where's the source code? Why am I supposed to just trust that this will work every time?" Or at least put out a paper.
An open source solution would be ideal here for sure, not least because these algorithms are likely generally useful for optimizing any dynamic system of stocks and flows.
Absolutely. Whether this particular solver is useful or not for a given problem will depend on how closely your problem matches power system dynamics, but I do think a lot of problems fit into the structural assumptions that power systems optimizers make.
Exactly, and if it's open source then it can be tweaked for other domains.