Capabilities

Improve efficiency and ensure reliability

Benefits of using PSS®E

  • Comprehensive modeling capabilities that enable sophisticated analyses and accuracy, while also saving time
  • Improved system reliability while saving and reducing infrastructure costs
  • Improved work processes and efficiency
  • Integration into a client’s workflow via built-in Python APIs
  • Rapid assessments provide fast responses to constantly changing network conditions and the resulting effects
  • Fast and easy anticipation of network problems and analyses of alternatives
  • Calculation of the area exchanges in the planning network model

 

Unique advantages of PSS®E

  • Trusted results that are used as benchmarks in the industry and academic literature
  • Data and models that are easily exchangeable with other entities across the industry
  • Access to resources: rich ecosystem of documentation, online forums, script libraries, model libraries, and other fellow PSS®E users around the world
  • Interoperability with an enormous landscape of other industry tools
  • Vast automation and customization potential via APIs, which are among the most flexible in the industry and are based on open Python™ technology

 

Powerful, customizable, and fully-featured software

PSS®E standard features

  • Fast and robust power flow solution for network models of up to 200,000 buses
  • Lightning-fast steady-state contingency analysis, including automatic corrective actions and remedial action system modeling
  • Full node-breaker support for detailed modeling of substation topology
  • Automated PV/QV analysis with plot generation
  • Powerful program automation and customization with fully-featured Python® API
  • Balanced and unbalanced fault analysis and contingency analysis (deterministic and probabilistic)
  • Modern graphical user interface
  • Comprehensive power flow and dynamics model library, including emerging technologies such as advanced FACTS devices and wind turbines
  • Code-based, user-written model building
  • Powerful, easy-to-use integrated plot facility
  • Graphical construction of user-defined controller models