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PowerWorld Simulator
PowerWorld Corporation (PowerWorld) was founded in 1996. The goal of PowerWorld’s founders was to market,
develop, and distribute a software package known as PowerWorld Simulator. PowerWorld Simulator was originally
developed by Professor Thomas Overbye of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A very user-friendly and highly visual product, PowerWorld Simulator can be used to give an analyst a
comprehensive look at how electrical power flows in a transmission grid. In addition, it can be used to examine the
benefits of power transactions between different areas as well as the consequences of those transactions.
PowerWorld Simulator was specifically designed from the ground up to be very graphical, user friendly, and
interactive. It is a Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP based package, and thus contains all the familiarity of the Windows
Graphical User Interface. Simulator allows users to simulate the operation of a power system either as snapshots in
time or over a given time period. The main claim to fame of PowerWorld Simulator has been its unique and highly
effective graphical analysis and reporting tools.

Simulator's visual nature not only makes the analysis of power systems easier, but also makes it easier to explain the
results of that analysis to non-technical personnel. Simulator has been used in presentations to such diverse entities
as county zoning boards to state regulatory agencies to a sub-committee of the United States Congress.

Since PowerWorld Simulator was originally commercialized in 1996, there has been extensive development of the
software. PowerWorld is currently releasing Simulator Version 11.0. PowerWorld now has over 450 separate
corporate entities in over 50 countries as customers and users of Simulator. In addition, PowerWorld has received
four separate National Science Foundation SBIR grants, which have helped to fund the development of new
products.

Simulator is a full-featured power flow analysis package capable of solving systems of up to 100,000 buses. It can
open cases in .RAW (PTI Raw Data), .EPC (GE EPC), and .CF (IEEE Common) formats , so rest assured that your
current system models will function without difficulty in Simulator. We also support reading in of one-line diagrams
in PTI DRW file format. Simulator supports detailed modeling of LTC and phase-shifting transformers, switched
shunts, generator reactive capability curves, generator cost curves, load schedules, transaction schedules, dc lines,
multi-section lines, and remote bus voltage control. Simulator's inclusion of economic data into the power flow
solution enables you to assess not only the technical aspects of a system change such as a redispatch, but its
economic importance, as well.

Moreover, Simulator integrates area generation control (AGC) into the power flow solution process and offers
three different varieties of AGC: area slack, distributed slack using participation factors, and economic dispatch.
With the purchase of the Simulator OPF add-on, you may also dispatch using an optimal power flow. The type of
AGC can vary by area, so that you may use economic dispatch for areas for which you have detailed cost
information, and distributed or single area slack for areas for which you do not. Integrating AGC with the power
flow solution process allows you to model generation dispatch more realistically and to produce a solved case more
quickly than is possible with competing products that force you to dispatch generation as a separate activity.

Interactive, animated one-line diagrams allow you and your audience to view power systems as you've never seen
them before.
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Finally a power system package that actually shows the flow of power in the system as flowing animations. Colored
arrows on the transmission lines, loads, and generators are animated, with their movement, size, and direction
proportional to the magnitude and direction of the power flow. Options allow you to set up the display to best
convey your points to the audience.

All model parameters, functions, and tools are accessed easily through Simulator's graphical user interface (GUI),
which offers unparalleled ease-of-use and, thus, a very modest learning curve. Simulator's GUI, which has long been
its strongest selling point (because it is the product's most obvious advantage over its competitors), aids both in
using the program and in interpreting its results. Using Simulator's one-line displays and information dialogs, it is
possible to build and modify a model graphically, and to verify in a convenient way that the changes you have made
are indeed correct. In Edit Mode, the package allows you to build new cases either from scratch or by starting with
an existing power flow case. This module is fully integrated into the simulator.

Since much of the interaction between PowerWorld products and the user is accomplished using the mouse, we
have designed the package using consistent conventions for mouse usage. While the details are provided in the on-
line help files associated with the program, several generic guidelines apply throughout. Clicking the left mouse
button on objects is often used to achieve immediate results that may affect the power system. Conversely, clicking
the right mouse button on an object will not immediately affect system operation. Rather the right-click is used to
obtain additional information or options associated with an object.

Simulator's full-color one-line diagrams are highly customizable and support zooming, panning, and conditional
display of objects so that large systems can be displayed in great detail. Smooth zooming and panning make it easy
to see what you want. Object-oriented programming techniques allow you to interact with just about every object
shown on the one-line diagram. Simulator's integrated drawing tools allow the user to create such drawings in
record time, as they automate the insertion of branches, generators, loads and analog fields. You may depict a
system at the bus level for more detailed analysis, or you may look at the system as an interconnection of areas or
zones, each represented by a bubble tied to its neighbors by lines that represent interfaces. These interfaces can be
automatically defined within Simulator to consist of all ties joining adjacent areas. Simulator will calculate and
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display the tie-line flows for you, thus making the construction of area bubble diagrams an almost automatic
process. The figure below provides an example. Simulator animates branch and interface flows as arrows marching
along the line, the size of which can be used to represent the magnitude of the flow. Moreover, Simulator provides
line flow and interface pie charts that indicate flow as a percentage of the line's or interface's rating. Circuit
breakers on branches, loads, and generators allow you to open or close such objects with a single click. Simulator's
computational engine will respond by recalculating the system state, so that you will immediately see the impact of
the change. The Difference Flows feature can be used to emphasize the impact of system changes by allowing you
to display on the one-line or area diagram only the differences between two models. Think of it as PSS/E's Activity
Diff with results illustrated rather than merely tabulated. This is a very useful tool for analyzing the impact of a
redispatch or a proposed operating guide, for comparing day-to-day loadings or for tracking down an error in the
model.

Simulator provides a number of tools for calculating sensitivities. For example, it can compute and display power
transfer distribution factors (PTDFs). PTDFs can be displayed on area bubble diagrams and one-line diagrams
just as interface and branch flows can be displayed. Simulator also calculates line flow and interface sensitivities.
This feature is useful if you have identified an element whose loading has become a concern and you seek the most
effective set of controls for reducing its loading. This feature can be likened to a "poor man's OPF" in that it allows
you to attack system constraints through the dispatch of controls, albeit in a manual fashion. Simulator also gives
you access to loss sensitivities, which are useful in the economic dispatch calculation and could potentially be used
to levy charges for increased system losses. Finally, Simulator gives you access to the system admittance matrix
and power flow jacobian, so that you can export them into your other analysis tools.

Contour maps can be produced very easily in Simulator. Contouring provides a birds-eye view of how voltages,
loads, loss and flow sensitivities, PTDFs, bus prices, and branch / interface flows vary throughout the system. The
color contours draw attention to those areas of the system that pose problems, either in the form of low voltages or
heavy MVA flow or excessive sensitivity to a particular transaction. Such functionality can be extremely valuable
both in the planning stages and in real-time system monitoring, because potential problems are identified with little
effort on the part of the user.
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Simulator also features contingency analysis tools that help flag problems that arise beyond the base case.
Simulator's contingency analysis is not a screening tool; it implements a full AC power flow for each contingency
for increased accuracy. This type of analysis is essential for flagging voltage/var problems that would otherwise go
undetected using DC load flow techniques. Simulator's contingency analysis provides tools for managing, creating,
analyzing, and reporting lists of contingencies and associated violations. The analysis features a number of options
that give you great flexibility in enforcing how the list is to be processed to meet your operating criteria.

Although Simulator's graphical displays provide a wealth of information, there are times when a user prefers to see
data in tabular form. Simulator's updated case information tables offer spreadsheet-like views of case data and
calculations. They allow you to sort and filter the data the way that you want to see it, as well as to copy data to or
from other applications. You can even save tabular data as HTML for display on the web.

And speaking of the web, Simulator's built-in web document editor allows you to produce HTML documents
containing text, tables, and images and publish them to your web site to communicate the results of your study to
your member companies and other regional councils. This allows you, for example, to display the area bubble
diagram showing tie-line flows on your organizations web site, or to email such a diagram to a colleague who needs
the information. It's never been easier to communicate your system's issues!
Simulator also allows you to print full-color, high-resolution diagrams on your printer or plotter. This feature has
been used by current users to display their system on a daily basis on D-size paper. Anyone who walks into the
monitoring room can then catch a quick glimpse of what is going on in the system during that day.
Simulator supports an intuitive scripting language that enables you to automate frequently performed tasks, or even
to set up a scripted presentation. Such presentations could model how the system responds as loads and interchange
schedules vary over the course of a day.

Plus Many Other charts, displays, and options!

Simulator comes with extensive on-line help and a printed manual. Moreover, as a customer, you will benefit from
our extremely responsive customer support. As a small but growing company, we are eager to help our customers.
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Potential Uses
Transmission Planning
As either a stand alone power flow package, a power flow simulation over time, or simply as a graphical power
system case editor, Simulator's features will make planning department tasks easier to do and easier to explain.
Power system engineering consultants will find Simulator makes their activities faster, more accurate, and easier to
explain to their clients.
Power Marketers
Simulator's built in generator economic analysis allows users to integrate transmission and generation issues to
discover facts about the transmission system that could be very valuable to marketers. The PTDF calculations alone
could mean huge savings by allowing marketers to evaluate transmission loading relief calls to examine possible
counter transactions.

Operations
Increase your knowledge of your system's operation. Small utilities will find PowerWorld Simulator to be a low-cost
power flow program that could be used in their planning and operations departments. It can give system dispatchers
a feel for the system for the next 12 to 24 hours. Contact us for more information about Retriever, our real-time
package specifically designed for the control room.

Regulatory hearings
Explain the capabilities and limitations of the transmission system to undertake certain transactions, build new
facilities, and illustrate effectively the impacts of transmission tariffs including ancillary services.

Marketing to customers
Educate and inform your customers. PowerWorld products can provide an interactive means of showing how
electricity is delivered from the power plant to the consumer. This allows you to effectively show your customers
the issues involved in providing them with power.

Internal presentations
Illustrate dynamically the ramifications of proposed strategies. The PowerWorld products' displays were designed to
look good in presentations and can be easily customized with different fonts and colors. They can be quickly pasted
into a static slide presentation or used interactively within PowerWorld products.

In-house education
Provide non-technical employees with power system basics and issues involved in industry restructuring.

Educators
The PowerWorld Simulator has been used effectively in undergraduate and graduate level classes in power systems
operation, control, and analysis. Concepts are presented simply, yet the software has sufficient detail to challenge
advanced engineering students.
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Optional Add-on Tools for Simulator

Optimal Power Flow (OPF)
One of the Add-ons available with Simulator is our Optimal Power Flow (OPF). Simulator OPF starts with all the
functionality of the original Simulator, but then adds an optimal power flow (OPF). The advantage of having an
optimal power flow embedded into Simulator is it is now possible to optimally dispatch the generation in an area or
group of areas while simultaneously enforcing the transmission line and interface limits. Simulator OPF can then
calculate the marginal price to supply electricity to a bus (also known as the locational marginal price), taking into
account transmission system congestion. The advantage with Simulator is that these values are not just calculated,
but they can also be shown on a one-line, contoured, or exported to a spreadsheet.

The ability to calculate bus locational marginal prices and to economically dispatch a system while taking into
account transmission system congestion has been the most frequently requested addition to Simulator. Simulator
OPF has grown out of a project completed with the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) looking at the
cost of supplying electricity in the Northeast portion of the U.S. Because this project involved studying relatively
large systems, greater than 9,000 buses, we had to make Simulator OPF fast. As an example, the figures below
show contours of several thousand bus marginal costs in the New York and New England regions using FERC 715
data for the power system values and EIA supplied generation costs. Solving the OPF for this 9,270 bus system,
including enforcing about 20 binding transmission line MVA constraints and calculating the bus marginal prices at
5,627 buses took about 10 seconds using a 500 MHz Pentium III machine.

To purchase the OPF option for a current PowerWorld Simulator license, the price is 50% of the Simulator base
cost. To purchase a new license of Simulator with the OPF option, the price is the current Simulator list price plus
50%.
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Contour of Bus Marginal Prices in New York and New England

Detailed View of Western New York, with Transmission System

Available Transfer Capability

The Available Transfer Capability (ATC) Add-on is the newest arrival to the PowerWorld Simulator family of
Products. 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. Simulator ATC is complete integrated with the base Simulator package.

Simulator ATC utilizes advanced linearization methods that allow us to calculate ATC values in seconds, even while
taking into account more than 1000 contingencies and monitoring thousands of transmission lines and transformers.
The results of the ATC Add-on provide you a list of limitations to your transfer.

For a presentation on the methods used by Simulator ATC, see Efficient Available Transfer Capability Analysis
using Linear Methods.

PV Curve and QV Curve Tools (PVQV)

PowerWorld Corporation is pleased to offer the add-on to PowerWorld Simulator called PVQV (PV Curve and QV
Curve) Tool. (Note: PVQV was formally called VAST). With PVQV, users can identify risks to their systems
voltage stability and reactive supports during their planning studies. They can then use this information to determine
how to strengthen their system against these risks by modeling proposed changes in Simulator to evaluate their
effectiveness. With PVQV, users can take advantage of a full-featured voltage analysis tool within the familiar,
easy-to-use environment of PowerWorld Simulator.
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At the heart of PVQV is an engine for computing the maximum transfer capability between two sets of loads and
generators as it is constrained both by voltage stability limitations and by the need to maintain all voltages above a
certain level. The user defines the groups of loads and generators that will exchange power and how the amount of
that exchange should ramp during the simulation. PVQV models increasing the transaction of power between these
two groups of points and alerts the user when either a bus voltage falls below the minimum acceptable level or the
system fails to solve, indicating a possible voltage collapse. While this is going on, PVQV records values for
quantities the user wants to store. These values can include bus voltage magnitudes, bus voltage angles, real and
reactive loads, generator real and reactive outputs, reactive power reserves of individual generators or groups of
generators, branch real and reactive flows, and the real and reactive flows on interfaces or flowgates. All the while,
users can continue to interact with the simulation, to pause it, to change options, or to plot quantities they have
decided to monitor. The picture to the right offers a screenshot showing PVQV at work. The plot windows, open
one-line diagrams, and case information displays are all "live" during the simulation, so they automatically update to
show results from the latest solution. That means that you can watch a voltage trend unfold as the transaction
increases and interrupt the simulation when you find something of interest. We've even integrated contingency
analysis into PVQV so you can examine and rank the effects of contingencies on your systems voltage performance.

Our key goals in developing PVQV were to pack as much power and flexibility into the application while keeping it
easy-to-use and as interactive as possible. We believe no other planning-mode voltage stability analysis package can
help you learn as much about your systems limits as quickly as PVQV can.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is PowerWorld Simulator?

Simulator is an innovative power system analysis package, designed from the ground up to be extremely user-
friendly and highly interactive. However, Simulator's main claim to fame has been its innovative use of graphics,
including animated flows and color contours, to take a lot of the drudgery and mystery out of power system analysis.
Simulator runs under either Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, or XP.

What are some of the potential uses of PowerWorld Simulator?

Simulator has a number of uses in the corporate environment. Some of these include:

Helping to make better informed business decisions concerning the transmission system –
Give your marketers and other users an insight into the transmission system. Transmission
bottlenecks are a costly but increasingly common part of doing business in the electricity market.
By providing a full-featured power flow package, Simulator can take some of the mystery out of
the transmission system, helping you make better informed business decisions.
Economic Analysis – Using Simulator’s Optimal Power Flow (OPF) and Security Constrained
OPF (SCOPF), you can model electricity markets that utilize spot-pricing methodologies such as
Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP) markets. With Simulator OPF and SCOPF and good input
data to feed to these tools, you can replicate the dispatch and price calculations from these
markets.
In-house education – Quickly provide non-technical or new employees with the power system
basics and an understanding of many of the issues involved in industry restructuring.
Customer education – Effectively show your customers the issues involved in providing them
competitive power.
Executive presentations – Clearly present many power system concepts using eye-catching
graphics. Simulator's displays were designed to look good in presentations, and can be easily
customized. Simulator has been recently used in a number of presentations to the U.S. Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (which is now a PowerWorld customer) and a number of state
commissions.
Operations – Increase your knowledge of your system's operation. Many utilities will find
Simulator to be a low-cost power flow that could be used in their operations and planning
departments.
Power Flow Analysis – Simulator provides all the tools you need to perform advanced power
flow analysis such as transmission system impact studies for a new generating station. This
includes contingency analysis, Available Transfer Capability (ATC) studies, PV and QV Curve
Studies (PVQV), Fault Analysis, and area interchange.
Write your own code – Simulator’s SimAuto add-on provides the ability to directly link
Simulator’s solution engines with your own software. As long as your development language
supports the COM interface (or the newer .NET technology), you’ll be able to communicate
directly with Simulator.

What power flow algorithm does it use?

Simulator uses a full Newton-Raphson algorithm, with non-divergence control. Simulator can solve power systems
with up to 100,000 buses (we've never seen a case larger than this -- let us know if you need more!), and an almost
unlimited number of lines. Simulator has been used to solve FERC 715 cases for all of the NERC (North American
Electric Reliability Council) regions.
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I'm new to power system analysis and do not yet own a power flow. Why should I buy yours?

For most people Simulator is the clear choice both because of its user-friendly and highly graphical design, and its
price. Our customers are usually amazed at how easy Simulator is to use. This comes from the fact that Simulator
was originally designed for teaching power systems to non-technical audiences. Yet PowerWorld is also the industry
leader in power system visualization, which comes in quite handy both when using the package yourself, and when
presenting your results to others. And we've packed Simulator with enough features for serious engineering analysis!

But in all honesty we do want you to know that Simulator cannot solve every power system problem. What we've
done is provide the features that will completely meet the needs of most users. And in doing so kept the price very
reasonable. For highly specialized uses, such as transient stability, you'll need to supplement Simulator with other
programs.

I already own a power flow program. Why should I buy yours?

Obviously if you're already satisfied with the usability, capability, and upgrade prices of your current package, and
you seldom have to present your results to others, then you probably won't need to buy Simulator. But if not, we
believe you should seriously consider Simulator. We've had a number of customers, including one of the largest
utilities in the U.S., along with most recently a NERC reliability region, buy Simulator to supplement their existing
power flows. What has consistently sold people is the innovative graphics, the user-friendly design and the low
price.

Is Simulator compatible with my existing power flow cases?

Probably. Simulator provides import/export capability to the some of the most common power flow formats,
including those used with the U.S. FERC 715 cases. Therefore in all likelihood you can directly load your power
flow data into Simulator.

Are the one-line diagrams easy to build?

We think so! In all seriousness, we've gone to great lengths to make it easy to build the one-line diagrams. Features
such as the ability to automatically insert lines between buses, and the ability to "anchor" objects to buses and lines
make it easy to build and modify the one-lines (when an object is "anchored" to either a bus or a line, moving the
bus or line on the one-line causes all the objects anchored to the object to be moved as well; this feature makes it
quite easy to rearrange a one-line). We have also included the ability to import one-lines saved in a common power
flow one-line drawing format. If you are still worried about building your one-lines, let us know and we can set
them up for you for a very reasonable fee.

How do I get animated flows on the one-lines? Can they be customized?

Once the one-line diagrams have been built, you only need to toggle a field value (which is actually set "on" by
default). Yes, the animated flows are easily customized. Customization includes there size, color, shape, whether
they move or not, and their density.

Are zooming and panning supported on the one-lines?

Yes, you can easily zoom and/or pan the one-lines. Also, objects on the one-line can be set so that they are only
visible at certain zoom levels. This allows you to zoom into a portion of the one-line and show successively more
detail as you zoom in. A find command is also available to allow you to easily locate a particular bus on the one-
line.

You mentioned contours earlier. What do you mean?

Simulator has the ability to contour the system parameters on the one-line diagram. The output of the contouring is a
plot very similar to the temperature contours seen in the newspaper, except a system parameter, not temperature, is
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being contoured. This feature can be extremely useful for rapidly assessing power system conditions in a large
region. For example we recently completed a one-line diagram that shows almost every bus in the Atlantic
Interconnect region of the U.S. By using this contour any regions of low voltage are readily apparent. Also, a
number of options are provided to easily customize the contour and the particular color mapping to use. See our
Features page for an example contour of marginal bus prices.

Can the Simulator displays be pasted into other programs, such as PowerPoint?

Yes. The one-line diagram contains a local-menu with a command to copy the display into the Window's clipboard.
From there you can paste it just about anywhere, including into a word processing or presentation program.

Is on-line help available?

Of course! Simulator comes with comprehensive on-line help, as well as a 160+ page fully indexed manual.

What advanced analysis modules are available?

Contingency Analysis – Automatically run through a list of 1000’s of contingency and create a
list of system overloads and voltage problems seen during these contingencies. Also compare the
results of two contingencies runs.
Unbalanced Fault Analysis – Determine the A, B, and C phase currents and voltages after a fault
in the system. Includes support for all unbalanced fault types as well as mutual impedances and
fault impedances.
Sensitivity Calculations – Determine the linear sensitivity of line flows and voltages to power
injections, transfers or line outages/insertions. This includes the calculation of Power Transfer
Distribution Factors (PTDFs), Line Outage Distribution Factors (LODFs), Transmission Loading
Relief Sensitivities (TLRs), and Generation Shift Factors (GSFs). You can also calculate Loss
Sensitivities using the sensitivity tools.
Optimal Power Flow (OPF) – Optimally dispatch your system to remove transmission line
overloads, while also calculating spot prices (also known as locational marginal prices). OPF is
available as an add-on to Simulator.
Available Transfer Capability Tool (ATC) – Calculate ATC values in seconds using linear
analysis techniques. ATC is available as an add-on to Simulator.
PV and QV Curves Tool (PVQV) – Study voltage stability problems in your system using
PVQV. PVQV is available as an add-on to Simulator.
Security Constrained Optimal Power Flow (SCOPF) – Optimally dispatch your system to
remove transmission line overloads under the base case and under any contingency, while also
calculating spot prices (also known as locational marginal prices). SCOPF is available as an add-
on to Simulator.

What is PowerWorld Viewer?

PowerWorld Viewer is a free software package that we developed so that our customers could provide their results
from Simulator to whomever they wish. As the name implies, Viewer allows users to view a case with all the ease of
Simulator, including all the animation features. However users of Viewer can not modify the case in any way. You
can obtain a free version of Viewer, capable of viewing systems with up to 100,000 buses from the PowerWorld
website at www.powerworld.com.

I've never heard of PowerWorld Corporation before. Are you new?

We're glad you've heard of us now! PowerWorld Corporation itself is relatively new. We incorporated in late 1996,
and really got going in the summer of 1997. However our founders themselves are not new, with many decades of
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experience in the power industry. Simulator itself was originally designed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign as an educational and research tool. It made its first public debut in summer of 1994.

How many other customers do you have?

As of June 2005 we have over 450 different installations worldwide in over 50 countries. Our customers include the
some of the largest utilities in the world, many U.S. government agencies and NERC reliability regions, several
ISOs, and many state regulatory agencies. Our software is used by consultants and power marketers, as well as
many utilities and universities worldwide.

What type of training and technical support is available?

One of the advantages of Simulator is that you can get up and running with a minimum of training. Nevertheless, we
do recognize that formal training can often be quite useful. Therefore we offer regular training courses. PowerWorld
staff is also available for in-house training. For more information on training see our Training Page. Also, please
note that every license comes with free technical support, available both by phone (217) 384-6330 and by email at
support@powerworld.com.

OK, but how much does it cost? What about upgrades?

A single user commercial license for the 100,000 bus version of Simulator is only $ 8,000 U.S. And the price
includes upgrades and support for one year. Additional licenses are available at a substantial discount. Currently
future upgrades are available for a yearly licensing cost of 20% of the list price. For more information, see our
Pricing Page.

For universities only, we have a special 7,000 bus version available for only $ 1,000 U.S. This is a campus wide
license and also includes upgrades for one year. Alternatively university users can order the full commercial license
for a 50% discount.

Are demo/evaluation versions available?

Yes, you can download a free 12 bus version of Simulator from this website. Just click Download at the top of the
page. You can use this version to evaluate many of the features of Simulator. However it is limited to solving cases
with a maximum of 12 buses. Also, our free Viewer package contains much of the Simulator visualization
capabilities and is also capable of loading systems with up to 100,000 buses. Finally, on a case by case basis we
make evaluation versions of the full Simulator package available.

Do you have something for real-time visualization?

Yes we do! Retriever, PowerWorld’s newest product offering uses the same graphical representations available
with Simulator to show real-time or historical power system data. This may be in a traditional control room
environment, but may also extend to any computer in your organization. Retriever has already been built as a front-
end to several databases including SQL Server, OSI’s PI Server, and Flat Text Files. Contact us for more details.

How do I order?

Ordering is simple. If you like you can place an order by credit card by calling (217) 384-6330. Or you can send a
Purchase Order to PowerWorld Corporation, 2001 South First Street, Suite 203, Champaign, IL 61820 or via fax to
(217) 384-6329. You may also contact us by email at sales@powerworld.com.