Describe and model the physical behavior of the grid and connected equipment under stable operating conditions more accurately, identify potential vulnerabilities, and help ensure reliable operation with Power Flow (formerly PSLF).
Advanced power flow modeling and analysis software
Discover how PlanOS’s Steady State Power Flow function can help you plan for an expanding power system, without disrupting your existing network’s reliability. Identify common issues such as overloaded equipment and voltage instability before they become problematic. With Steady State Power Flow your team can more easily assess the impact of changes in generation, demand, network topology, and faults in the power system.
- Execute transmission planning, interconnection analysis, and contingency analysis
- Easily generate monitored and contingent element lists including custom contingencies for specialized use cases
- Generation/load scaling and island detection utilities
Integrated power system planning
With the Power Flow function, your team can execute transmission planning, interconnection, and contingency and transfer analyses, with no third-party software required. Allowing you to create monitored and contingent element lists, including custom contingencies.
- Contingency analysis
- Transfer analysis
Steady state contingency analysis is a vital process in power systems engineering that evaluates the impact of potential failures or unexpected events on the power grid. By simulating various "what-if" scenarios, such as the sudden loss of a transmission line or generation unit, this analysis helps ensure the stability and reliability of the power system under different conditions. Contingency analysis is natively integrated in the Steady State Power Flow function of PlanOS.
- Uninterrupted power supply: Helps utility companies and grid operators maintain consistent power delivery
- Mitigates potential disruptions: Enables operators to foresee and address the effects of potential disturbances
- Optimizes resource allocation: Provides insights into how different network components react under stress, guiding investment in critical infrastructure
- Regulatory compliance: Assists utilities in demonstrating system reliability and stability as required by regulatory bodies
Steady state transfer capability analysis is a crucial process in power systems engineering that evaluates the maximum amount of electrical power that can be transferred over the transmission network from one area to another without violating system limits under steady state conditions. By assessing the transfer limits, this analysis helps ensure the safe and reliable operation of the power grid.
- Enables grid reliability: Identifies transfer limits to prevent overloads and maintain system stability.
- Improves power flow: Helps manage power distribution efficiently, reducing congestion and enhancing system performance.
- Supports market operations: Provides crucial data for energy trading, enabling market participants to enhance transactions while helping to ensure system security.
- Facilitates infrastructure planning: Informs investment decisions in transmission infrastructure, helping meet future demand and improve grid resilience.
Add-on features
Enhance your power flow software experience
1
ProvisoHD
Quickly and visually analyze post-contingency data produced by SSTOOLS.
2
Geomagnetic Disturbances (GMD)
Simulate GMD events in both snapshot and time-domain mode to satisfy TPL-007-3 standard requirements more easily.
3
Ztools
Specify data for simulating subsynchronous resonance (SSR) for thermal generation, and subsynchronous control interaction (SSCI) for wind turbines.
4
Breaker Node
Import and perform dataset simulations in node-breaker formats taken from operational snapshots.
5
Optimal Power Flow (OPF)
Determine optimal actions of various control devices in the network to minimize an objective function, while simultaneously satisfying system constraints.
PlanOS' functions
Revolutionize your grid planning experience
The PlanOS platform brings together GE Vernova’s decades of proven planning software tools (Production Cost, formerly MAPS*; Resource Adequacy, formerly MARS*; Power Flow, formerly PSLF*) and newly added Capacity Expansion into one powerful interface. PlanOS utilizes one shared dataset to seamlessly transition between analyses, like production cost, resource adequacy, and power flow, without the need for third-party add-ons.
This coordinated and holistic approach to analyzing a power system helps you break down traditional grid modeling silos and help you with your Integrated System Planning analysis.
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**Decarbonization, as used in this document, is intended to mean the reduction of carbon emissions on a kilogram per megawatt hour.
