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While this is not a PowerWorld seminar, it is by PowerWorld co-Founder Tom Overbye and he will be previewing some of the new PowerWorld version 23 functionality for direct inclusion of weather information in the power flow. Title: An Approach for the Direct Inclusion of Weather Information in the Power Flow Date and Time: July 13, 2022, […]

A free webinar titled Demystifying Electric Grid Measurement-Based Modal Analysis will be given on June 2 at 3pm Central time by PowerWorld Founder Tom Overbye. Even though this is not a direct PowerWorld seminar, the webinar will cover the background on the modal analysis techniques that are available in PowerWorld.  The webinar is free but registration […]

We are pleased to announce the release of PowerWorld Simulator version 22. Customers with current maintenance agreements are able to download it immediately. Simulator 22 installs exclusively as a 64-bit version. For a complete list of what’s new in version 22, please see: https://www.powerworld.com/products/simulator/whats-new

Tom Overbye, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and a co-founder of PowerWorld Corporation, has been featured in the media in the past few days commenting on the weather-related outages that have been occurring in Texas in the last week.  For example, his comments were featured […]

Due to the current severe Texas weather, the webinar has been moved to February 24th. On February 24, 2021 at 3pm Central Time there will be a webinar by PowerWorld founder Tom Overbye that may be of interest. Even though this is not a direct PowerWorld seminar, PowerWorld was used extensively in doing this study, […]

If any of you are looking for a short course focused on electric grid dynamics and stability utilizing PowerWorld, we wanted to let you know that one will be offered by Texas A&M in College Station Texas on September 24-26, 2019.  The instructors for this course are PowerWorld co-founder Tom Overbye, PowerWorld superuser Tracy Rolstad, […]

If any of you are looking for a short course focused on electric grid impacts of geomagnetic disturbances, including the modeling needed for NERC TPL-007, we wanted to let you know that one will be offered by Texas A&M in College Station Texas on April 23 to 24.  The instructors for this course are PowerWorld […]

If any of you are looking for a short course focused on transmission system planning utilizing PowerWorld software, we wanted to let you know that one will be offered by Texas A&M in College Station Texas on March 19 to 21. The instructors for this course are PowerWorld co-founder Tom Overbye, PowerWorld superuser Tracy Rolstad […]

Tom Overbye has recently published two papers regarding synthetic grids, both available online. “Educational Applications of Large Synthetic Power Grids” This paper describes the use of large electric grids in university electric power systems courses. Since much actual power system information is not publicly available, the application of public domain synthetic grids developed by the […]

These two videos show the frequency response of our 10K synthetic grid to a large generator fault. The first shows the total frequency response, whereas the second one just shows a single mode (0.73 Hz). With new Simulator capabilities, doing this detailed modal analysis is now quite easy. Because this is based on a synthetic […]