Contingency Analysis

Simulator comes with an extremely robust contingency analysis tool that supports both single-element and multiple-element contingencies. A contingency is an unexpected, but reasonably likely sudden change in the power system such as loss of a transmission line or generator. Contingencies can be manually inserted, automatically generated, imported from an auxiliary file, or loaded with the case information.

Following the introduction of the contingency analysis tool in Simulator version 5.0, PowerWorld has made continual improvements to the functionality and speed of calculation for the tool.