Simulator Customizations
PowerWorld offers five optional Simulator add-ons to meet your
needs:
We have developed an extremely fast tool for calculating ATC.
Simulator ATC allows you to determine the maximum MW transfer possible
between two parts of the power system without violating any limits.
This is the same calculation commonly performed by system operators or
market operators.
We have developed an linear programming based optimal power flow
package. Simulator OPF, an optional add-on to the base Simulator
package, is ideally suited to determining how to
mitigate constraints in the most economical fashion, and to report the
cost of enforcing line constraints.
OPF Reserves extends the power of the OPF and SCOPF tools to modeling
of simultaneous energy and ancillary services reserve markets.
Simulator PVQV helps fill the industry's need for a user-friendly
planning-mode tool for analyzing voltage stability and security that
is flexible, highly graphical, and easy-to-use. This tool was
previously know as Simulator VAST.
The Security Constrained Optimal Power Flow
tool, an optional add-on to the base Simulator package, is an
extension to Simulator OPF used to achieve an economical operation of
the system while considering not only normal operating limits, but
also violations that would occur during contingencies. The SCOPF
changes the system pre-contingency operating point so that the total
operating cost is minimized, and at the same time no security limit is
violated if contingencies occur.
Using SimAuto you can launch and control PowerWorld Simulator from within another
application, thus enabling you to access the data of a Simulator case,
to perform defined Simulator functions and other data manipulations,
and then to send results back to your original application, to a
Simulator auxiliary file, or to a Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet.
The Simulator Automation Server acts as a COM Object, which can be accessed from various Windows-based
programming languages that support COM compatibility. Examples of
programming tools with COM compatibility are Borland® Delphi,
Microsoft® Visual C++, and Microsoft® Visual Basic, just to name a
few.
The PowerWorld Transmission Line Parameter Calculator (TransLineCalc) is a
tool designed to compute the most important characteristic line
parameters given the type of conductor and the tower configuration
of a three-phase overhead transmission line. The TransLineCalc tool is
completely integrated with Simulator, which means that TransLineCalc can
be launched from Simulator, and then the results can be passed to
Simulator.
