PowerWorld Co-Founder Comments on the Recent Weather Related Outages in ERCOT
February 18, 2021
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 […]
Feasibility Assessment of an AC Interconnection of the North American Eastern and Western Interconnections
February 8, 2021
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, […]
New Developments in the Visualization of Wide-Area Electric Grid Information
June 22, 2020
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 […]
Simulator v21 Released
July 30, 2019
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
Two New Short Courses Utilizing PowerWorld for Fall 2019
July 29, 2019
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, […]