Maintain Reliability
Before taking their present positions, PowerGEM personnel managed or developed the industry standard software used for power system planning (the Power Technologies Inc. PSS/E and MUST software).
To help Maintain Reliability, PowerGEM has...
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Developed TARA software for AC (non-linear) and linear contingency analysis, including advanced methods for relieving bottlenecks (security constrained economic and minimum change redispatch).
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Developed software that identifies transmission bottlenecks in grids with generation resources far exceeding load (TARA).
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Developed software for managing transmission & generation outage costs and reliability impacts.
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Developed software to calculate available transmission or flowgate capability (ATC/AFC) in long term (1 year to 1 week) and short term (1 week) for PJM, TVA, and SPP. These calculations are based on daily network model updates (SDX files) and consider contingency constraints over a wide area of the United States Eastern Interconnection.
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Developed methods and software to test whether transmission limits impair generation capacity deliverability.
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Calculated export limits for stability-limited United States subregion.
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Developed generator operating guides.