The PowerWorld family of products is built on a powerful, industry-leading load flow analysis engine and a best-in-class, user-friendly graphical interface. It is remarkably easy to get "up and running" on the PowerWorld platform, yet its specialized features and tools offer almost endless possibilities for in-depth analysis and visualization of complex large-scale power systems. Just a few examples of the many potential applications include:

Transmission Planning
As a snapshot power flow analyzer, a power flow simulator over time, or simply as a graphical power system case editor, PowerWorld Simulator makes transmission planning tasks easier to perform and easier to explain. Power system engineering consultants will find Simulator makes their analysis and design faster, more accurate, and easier to explain to their clients.

Power Marketing
PowerWorld Simulator's built in generator economic analysis allows users to integrate transmission and generation issues to discover facts about the transmission system that could be very valuable to marketers. For example, informed Power Transfer Distribution Factor (PTDF) analysis could yield huge savings by allowing marketers to evaluate transmission loading relief calls and possible counter transactions.

Simulation of Electricity Markets
Simulator is an ideal tool to analyze electricity markets. Based on generator bids, load benefit curves and full modeling of the transmission grid, PowerWorld Simulator Optimal Power Flow (OPF) tools allow you to determine security-constrained locational marginal prices (LMPs) at every bus in the system, and thus determine how much the market agents will have to pay or be paid in the market. Simulator allow you to dispatch for minimal system operating cost, to enforce security constraints, and to determine the effect of congestion and re-dispatch. You can use Simulator to assess the impact of outages, load variation, or fuel cost variation on LMPs or financial transmission rights (FTR), which will help you design the best strategy to operate your assets in the market. Using Simulator Time Step Simulation tool, you can obtain the system optimal dispatch and LMP's for a number of hours, and see how prices change with demand or system conditions. Furthermore, you can visualize LMPs on your oneline diagram to obtain insight about the spatial behavior of marginal prices, congested paths, and possible market power conditions.

Operator Training
Using Simulator's Time Step Simulation, develop timed exercises to improve your operators' knowledge of the system and response to unexpected events. Or purchase ready-to-use system simulation exercises with the OPS-X Trainer. Up to 40 Continuing Education Hours are available to satisfy the NERC System Emergency Operations Training requirement.

Real-Time System Monitoring
PowerWorld Retriever brings PowerWorld's best-in-class visualization to the control room, giving system operators the right information at the right time to help make informed decisions.  Retriever gives operators a real-time (or historic) view of the power system and its various parameters quickly, accurately, and in a format that increases situational awareness.  

Operations
Increase your knowledge of your system's operation. Build a power flow case from actual system parameters in near real-time or from a system state captured in your historian using PowerWorld Retriever with Topology Processing (TP).

Small utilities will find PowerWorld Simulator to be a cost-effective power flow engine for planning and operations analysis.

Regulatory hearings
Explain the capabilities and limitations of the transmission system to undertake certain transactions, build new facilities, and illustrate effectively the impacts of transmission tariffs including ancillary services.

Marketing to customers
Educate and inform your customers. PowerWorld products can provide an interactive means of showing how electricity is delivered from the power plant to the consumer. This allows you to effectively show your customers the issues involved in providing them with power.

Internal presentations
Illustrate dynamically the ramifications of proposed strategies. PowerWorld displays are designed to look good in presentations and can be easily customized with different fonts and colors. They can be quickly pasted into a static slide presentation or used interactively within PowerWorld products.

In-house education
Provide non-technical employees with power system basics and issues involved in industry restructuring.

Educators
Simulator has been, and continues to be, used effectively in undergraduate and graduate level classes in power systems operation, control, and analysis. Concepts are presented simply, yet the software has sufficient detail to challenge advanced engineering students.  Please see the Educator's Corner for more information.