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We are pleased to announce the release of PowerWorld Simulator version 23. It is now available for download by customers with current maintenance agreements. A list of new features in version 23 is available here (https://www.powerworld.com/products/simulator/whats-new).

The FirstRateTM generator cost model dataset mapped to the ERCOT 2022 planning case series (22SSWG) is now available to subscribers of FirstRate ERCOT. FirstRate models provide basic and essential inputs for use with PowerWorld Simulator OPF software, based on figures published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). More information about FirstRate is available here, […]

The next PowerWorld User Group Meeting will be held October 5-6, 2022 in Tempe, Arizona. The meeting is open to all PowerWorld Simulator users, though it is anticipated most discussions will be oriented to power system planning and operations issues facing WECC members. Salt River Project (SRP) will host the meeting at the PERA Club […]

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, […]

PowerWorld Corporation is pleased to share information about an upcoming webinar on electric grid wide-area visualization, presented by Professor Thomas J. Overbye of Texas A&M University and sponsored by the Texas A&M Smart Grid Center. The subject matter is not specific to PowerWorld software, but PowerWorld Simulator is used in the examples and demonstrations. The […]

We are pleased to announce the release of PowerWorld Simulator version 21. Customers with current maintenance agreements are able to download it immediately. Simulator 21 installs exclusively as a 64-bit version. For a complete list of what’s new in version 21, please see: https://www.powerworld.com/products/simulator/whats-new