Tom Overbye to Move to Texas A&M
February 23, 2016
PowerWorld is pleased to announce that Tom Overbye, the original developer of the PowerWorld software and a co-founder of the company, has accepted a position at Texas A&M University as a TEES Distinguished Research Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. This appointment is anticipated to start on or before January of 2017. Dr. […]
PowerWorld Authored Article in the Journal of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
January 25, 2016
Link Abstract The installation of vast quantities of additional new sensing and communication equipment, in conjunction with building the computing infrastructure to store and manage data gathered by this equipment, has been the first step in the creation of what is generically referred to as the “smart grid” for the electric transmission system. With this […]
Sample Animation: TS with Sustained Oscillations
December 29, 2015
We have another sample Transient Stability animation created using Simulator 19: it plays out an artificial scenario in real time on a 2000 bus equivalent system that creates sustained oscillations in a couple of generators. (Note that this scenario is meant only to demonstrate Simulator’s toolset, not to model the actual behavior of an existing power system) […]
PowerWorld v19 Released
November 17, 2015
PowerWorld is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of its line of power system analysis tools. PowerWorld Simulator, PowerWorld Retriever, and PowerWorld Viewer are all now on version 19. Emails have been sent to all organizations with current license agreements that include instructions on how to download and install the new version. […]
Animated Transient Stability Contingencies in v19
October 26, 2015
Continuing to expand the visualization tools at your disposal, in Simulator Version 19 we’ve simplified the process of creating fully animated sequences showing the effects of a contingency by exporting frames at a specified interval during simulation. Check out some sample animations here!