ieee-power-figure

name

ieee-power-figure

description

Create, revise, or audit IEEE PES Transactions-ready figures for power systems, smart grid, microgrid, DER, EV, OPF, PMU, AMI, reliability, resilience, and energy management papers. Use when the user asks for IEEE, TPWRS, TSG, Transactions on Power Systems, Transactions on Smart Grid, publication-ready plots, one-column or two-column figures, SVG/PDF/TIFF export, grayscale-safe line graphs, heatmaps, box plots, or one-line diagrams.

IEEE Power Figure

Produce figures as compact engineering evidence for IEEE double-column papers. Use the repository package ieee_skills when available; otherwise follow the rules in the references.

First move

Establish the figure contract before plotting:

1. Journal target: TPWRS, TSG, or unspecified IEEE PES.
2. Claim: the one sentence the figure must support.
3. Panel role: comparison, operation profile, sensitivity, topology, uncertainty, resilience, ablation, or case-study evidence.
4. Width: one column (3.5 in) or two columns (7.16 in).
5. Export: vector first (PDF or SVG) plus high-resolution raster when needed.
6. Accessibility: do not rely on color alone; use markers, line styles, direct labels, or patterns.

If the data, units, scenario definitions, or error-bar meaning are missing, state the missing item and create a scaffold only when the user wants one.

Python defaults

Prefer the package helpers:

from ieee_skills import line_plot, box_plot, heatmap, single_line_diagram, save_figure

Use these defaults for hand-written matplotlib code:

import matplotlib as mpl

mpl.rcParams.update({
    "font.family": "serif",
    "font.serif": ["Times New Roman", "Times", "DejaVu Serif"],
    "mathtext.fontset": "stix",
    "font.size": 8,
    "axes.labelsize": 8,
    "xtick.labelsize": 7,
    "ytick.labelsize": 7,
    "legend.fontsize": 7,
    "pdf.fonttype": 42,
    "ps.fonttype": 42,
    "svg.fonttype": "none",
})

Chart selection

• Time series, load profiles, voltage profiles, and convergence curves: line plot with unique markers and line styles.
• Scenario distributions, voltage violations, loss distributions: box plot or violin plot with clear median and sample count.
• Sensitivity matrices, locational marginal prices, correlations, attention maps: perceptually ordered heatmap, preferably cividis, with units in the colorbar.
• Network topology, feeder layout, bus-branch case studies: one-line diagram with branch loading encoded by width or grayscale-safe accent.
• Reliability/resilience: use event timeline plus quantitative restoration or energy-not-served panel.

Required QA

Before final delivery:

1. Confirm width is one-column or two-column IEEE size.
2. Confirm all axes include units when physical quantities are plotted.
3. Confirm line graphs are interpretable in grayscale.
4. Confirm exported text remains editable in vector files where possible.
5. Confirm raster export is at least 600 dpi for line art.
6. Confirm captions define scenarios, statistics, error bars, and sample sizes.

When to load references

File	Open when
references/ieee-figure-standards.md	Need exact IEEE graphics dimensions, formats, resolution, or accessibility rules.
references/power-chart-patterns.md	Need a chart type for TPWRS/TSG power-system evidence.
references/export-qa.md	Need pre-submission figure audit checks.
references/journal-scope.md	Need to decide whether the figure narrative fits TPWRS or TSG.