Kestrel PowerFlow

The fastest AC power flow solver ever released
20 000 – 70 000 bus systems in under one second — on a laptop.

Kestrel PowerFlow™ is a proprietary, commercial-grade Newton-Raphson engine built from the ground up for the most demanding transmission studies on the planet.

Hot-Start Capability
Re-solve in <20 ms after redispatch or contingency
Full N-1 / N-1-1 Screening
25 000-bus systems scanned in <6 seconds with Q-limit enforcement
Robust Reactive Limits
Automatic PV→PQ switching with hysteresis — no divergence
Instant PTDF & LODF
Sub-millisecond shift factors by reusing the factorized Jacobian

Designed for real-time security assessment, tight UC/ED coupling, voltage-collapse proximity monitoring, and as the physics backbone for AI-driven grid control and digital-twin applications.

Public Beta — Q1 2026
Free forever for legitimate academic and nonprofit research use
Commercial licensing required for all for-profit entities after the beta period

Available as PyPI wheel • REST API • High-performance SDK