Computer Based program software’s for electrical power system

1 Advanced Grounding Concepts (WinIGS)

WinIGS is software for "Integrated Grounding System" (IGS) analysis. It has a straightforward
graphical user interface (GUI) allowing quick and simple modelling of ground grids. After
creating the model, you can observe effects of different fault current magnitudes applied to the
grid and identify areas where touch and step voltage potential thresholds are exceeded
(see Earthing Calculation - Touch and Step Potential Criteria. If necessary, one can easily go back
to the model and mitigate for those personnel safety violations by adding bare copper
conductor and ground rods (see general note below).

 Software Note: Soil resistivity layer profiles are limited to two layers. The benefit is
extremely quick solution times compared to a program that may run for an hour or so with
a complicated soil model. Unfortunately, the results may not be as accurate and this could
be life-threatening in areas with larger fault current sources and undersized ground grids.
The second function is the lightning analysis tool. There is a preset 3D library of substation
equipment (bulk supply transformers, circuit breakers, switches, rigid bus structures, etc) where
the user can input length, width, and height dimensions to create a full replica of the substation
to then use for lightning protection design in the form of lightning mast structures and static
shield wire. If one wants to save time and be more conservative, they can easily model all of the
equipment as blocks. The tool allows one to apply either fixed angel theorem (recommended for
69kV, 350kV-BIL systems or below) or the rolling sphere method (some 69kV, 350kV-BIL yards
and typically voltages above 69kV), but not both simultaneously (at this time). Note that it is
easy to switch between the two when observing different sections of the substation yard. See
IEEE 998-1996, Guide for Direct Lightning Stroke Shielding of Substations for more information
on lightning protection.

 General Note: The size of copper depends on the available amount of fault current, and
typical sizes are 4/0 (212kcmil), 250kcmil, 300kcmil, 350kcmil, and 500kcmil. Ground rods
are typically Copperweld copper-clad (copper-covered) steel, and are 8ft or 10ft. They can
also be coupled together to achieve desireable, lower resistivity soil layers that may
See the website for a description of the expanded capabilities in the program, such as modelling
remote substations as one network and calculating the system impedance, and others.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7

2 ASPEN

ASPEN (Advanced Systems for Power Engineering) are a California based company that develops
the following separate Windows platform products:

 OneLiner - short circuit and relay coordination program (and the Breaker Rating Module
add-on checks the rating of circuit breakers against the short circuit currents they need to
interrupt)
  DistriView - integrated suite of voltage drop, short circuit, relay coordination, and harmonics
and reliability calculation software for utility distribution systems
 Power Flow Program - power flow program designed for the planning, design and operating
studies of transmission, sub-transmission and distribution networks (includes a BASIC-style
scripting language)
 Line Constants Program - calculates electrical parameters of overhead transmission lines
and underground cables
 Relay Database - a repository of relay information for electric utilities and industrial facilities
 Line Database - an electronic depository of data related to power lines and cables

3 BCP Switzerland (NEPLAN)

BCP Switzerland are a Zurich-based company and the developers of NEPLAN, a modular power
systems analysis package.
NEPLAN has the following modules: load flow, short circuit, contingency analysis, motor starting
analysis, OPF, line parameter calculations, network reduction, harmonic analysis, investment
analysis, dynamic simulation, reliability analysis, overcurrent and distance protection, earthing
analysis, load forecasting, network optimisation tools, arc flash analysis and cable sizing.
NEPLAN also features a C/C++ based programming language and MATLAB interface.

4 Commonwealth Associates (Transmission 2000)

Commonwealth Associates Inc are a Jackson, Michigan based company specialising in

transmission and distribution services. Transmission 2000 is a proprietary product developed by
Commonwealth Associates for the analysis of utility transmission systems.
Features of Transmission 2000 include load flow, constrained economic dispatch, transient
stability, short circuit, protection analysis and calculation of line constants.

5 CYME

CYME International is a Canadian firm (now part of the Cooper Power Systems family) that
develops an integrated suite of modular power engineering applications, as well as standalone
applications for cable ampacity calculations and electromagnetic transients.
The integrated suite has a range of functions including load flow, short circuit, OPF, load
balancing, load allocation / estimation, optimal capacitor placement, network forecaster,
reliability, transient stability, harmonic analysis, dynamic motor starting, contingency, protection
coordination, switching optimisation, GIS overlay, earthing grid design and arc flash analysis.

6 DIgSILENT (PowerFactory)

DIgSILENT GmbH is a German company that develops PowerFactory, a Windows-based

integrated power systems modelling and analysis package. DIgSILENT PowerFactory is easy to
use and caters for all standard power system analysis needs, including high-end applications in
new technologies such as wind power and distributed generation and the handling of very large
power systems. In addition to the stand-alone solution, the PowerFactory engine can be
smoothly integrated into GIS, DMS and EMS supporting open system standards.
 Some of the functions include power flow analysis, fault analysis, stability analysis, network
reduction, protection analysis, electromagnetic transients analysis, motor starting analysis, OPF,
harmonic load flow, state estimation, contingency and reliability assessments, overhead line and
cable parameter calculation, distribution network analysis, eigenvalue / modal analysis.
Features include a C++ style scripting language called the DPL and a single, integrated, flexible
database.

7 DNV GL (SynerGEE Electric)

SynerGEE Electric is a power system analysis package developed by DNV GL. Functions include
load flow, symmetrical and asymmetrical faults, capacitor placement, cable ampacity,
contingency switching, switch optimization, harmonic impedance, motor starting, phase
balancing, predictive reliability, and protective device coordination.

8 Energy Advice (EA-PSM)

EA-PSM is a power system modelling software for electrical engineers developed by Energy
Advice based in Lithuania, Europe. Features include power flow, short circuit, arc flash,
harmonic load flow, protection coordination, distance protection and coordination, motor
starting, cable ampacity, protection tracking, parallel lines parameters calculations, low and
medium voltage cable sizing, power transformer harmonic losses evaluation module. All models
are based on IEEE, IEC and GOST standards.

9 Energy Computer Systems (SPARD)

Energy Computer Systems is a Colombian company that develops SPARD mp Power, an

integrated power systems analysis software package.
Functions include load flow, short circuit, harmonic analysis, automatic protection coordination,
transient stability, OPF and optimisation tools.

10 Electrocon (CAPE)

Electrocon International are a Michigan based company and developers of the Computer Aided
Protection Engineering (CAPE) software, a Windows-platform protection tool designed for high
voltage transmission systems and distribution systems within electric power utilities. CAPE was
first released in 1990.
Functions include short circuit analysis, protection coordination, relay settings and checking with
a system simulator, load flow, OPF, short circuit reduction, breaker duty evaluation and line
constants calculations.

11 EMTP-RV

The ElectroMagnetic Transients Program (EMTP) was first developed by Prof. Hermann Dommel
in the 60s/70s for the analysis of electromagnetic transients. It was commercialised in 1987 and
released as DCG EMTP and later EMTP96. EMTP-RV is the latest commercial released of the
program, created by Jean Mahseredjian and currently being developed by POWERSYS.
12 EPFL (SIMSEN)

SIMSEN is a simulation software package for the analysis of power systems and adjustable speed
drives. It is developed by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Analysis features
include the simulation of electromagnetic transients in AC/DC networks, transient stability,
general fault analysis and sub-synchronous Resonance (SSR).

13 ERACS

ERA Technology are a UK-based consultancy that also develop the power system analysis
program ERACS. Features include: load flow, short circuit, arc flash analysis, harmonic studies,
transient stability and protection coordination.

14 EasyPower

EasyPower LLC, founded in 1990 and based in Oregon, are the developers of EasyPower®, an
integrated power systems analysis software, with an array of products such as EasyPower®,
EasySolv™, SafetyTracker™ and Oneline Designer™. The flagship product, EasyPower, includes
the following modules: arc flash analysis, power flow, short circuit, OPF, protective device
coordination, dynamic stability, transient motor starting, and harmonic analysis.
Additional workflow enhancing modules include SmartPDC™, which automates protective
device coordination, and SmartDesign™ which automatically sizes feeders, breakers, switchgear,
fuses, busway, MCCs, panels, etc to NEC requirements. The ScenarioManager feature allows the
study of multiple system scenarios on the fly.
Oneline Designer is a cost effective solution for people who are dedicated to creating onelines,
as well as system data collection and entry.

15 ETAP

Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Irvine, California, ETAP is a company specialising in

electrical power system modeling, design, analysis, optimization, and predictive real-time
solutions. To date, more than 50,000 licenses of the Company’s ETAP and ETAP Real-Time
products have been used in generation, transmission, distribution, and industrial power system
projects around the world.
Functions include arc flash analysis, load flow analysis, short circuit analysis, motor starting, OPF,
transient stability analysis, generator start-up, parameter estimation, cable sizing, transformer
tap optimization, reliability assessment, transmission line constant calculations, harmonic
analysis, protection coordination, dc load flow, battery discharge and sizing, earth grid design,
cable pulling, and GIS map integration.

16 GDF Suez (Eurostag)

Eurostag is a package developed by Tractabel Engineering GDF Suez and RTE (France), which
includes the following functions: load flow, dynamic simulation, critical clearing time calculation,
eigenvalue computation and system linearisation, dynamic security assessment, model
parameter identification and small signal analysis. One of the more unique features of Eurostag
 is the out-of-the-box modelling of power plant mechanical / energy conversion equipment such
as boilers, gas turbines, etc.

17 GE Energy (PSLF)

GE Energy develop a range of utility software including PSLF (Positive Sequence Load Flow), a
suite of analytical tools that can simulate large-scale power systems up to 60,000 buses.
Functions include load flow, OPF, short circuit and dynamic simulation. Includes support for a
scripting language called EPCL.

18 IPSA Power

IPSA Power is a division of UK company TNEI that develops the IPSA (Interactive Power System
Analsysis) software package. IPSA was started as a PhD project in 1954 and the first commercial
version was released in 1980.
Functions include load flow, short circuit, OPF, transient and dynamic stability, harmonic
analysis, protection coordination. A Python-based scripting language is supported, as well as an
open API for use in other applications (with Visual Basic / VBA, C/C++ and Fortran bindings).

19 KEPCO (KW-PSS)

KEPCO Research Institute is a branch of the Korean company KEPCO (Korea Electric Power
Corporation). In 2002, they started development on KW-PSS, a power systems analysis package
with the following modules: Power Flow Analysis & Fault Analysis, Transient Stability Analysis,
Voltage Stability Analysis, Small Signal Stability Analysis and Optimal Power Flow & Optimal
Capacitor Placement.

20 MATMOR (PADEE)

MATMOR C.A. is a Venezuelan engineering consultancy that also develops PADEE, a network
analysis, design and planning package for low and medium voltage distribution networks.
Standard modules in PADEE include Intelligent Maps Program (IMP), Primary Network Analysis
Program (PNAP), Secondary Network Analysis Program (SNAP), Customers Program (CP),
Transformer Load Management Program (TLMP), Equipment Information and Photo Program
(EIPP), Demand Forecast for Short, Medium and Long Term Program (DFP), Overcurrent
Protection Coordination Program (OPP), Automated Topographic Profiles Drawing and Pole
Placing Program (ATPPP), Budget Calculation Program (COMWIN), Interrupts and Operation
Program (IOP), Energy Loss Program (ELP), Distribution Network Maintenance Program (DNMP),
Network Inventory, Public Lighting and Other Services Program (NILOP), Connection with SCADA
Program (CSCP) and Transformer Bank Totalizer Program (TBTOTP).

21 MILSOFT (Windmil)

MILSOFT Utility Solutions are a Texas based company that develops Windmil, an electric
distribution system planning and analysis package. Functions include load flow and voltage drop
modeling, reliability analysis, contingency and sectionalizing studies, OPF, short circuit and fault
current calculations, protective device coordination and arc flash hazard analysis.
22 Manitoba HVDC Research Centre (PSCAD)

Manitoba Hydro International is a Canadian company with a research arm called the Manitoba
HVDC Research Centre that develops the software packages PSCAD (also known as
PSCAD/EMTDC).
PSCAD is an electromagnetic time domain transient simulation environment and study tool,
created in 1988 and first released commercially in 1993. It is a multi-purpose dynamic simulator
with particular specialisation in HVDC applications.

23 MathWorks (SimPowerSystems)

Mathworks, the makers of general purpose mathematical software MATLAB, also develop an
power systems simulation program. SimPowerSystems is a tool that extends MATLAB's Simulink
and provides models of many components used in power systems, including three-phase
machines, electric drives, and libraries of application-specific models such as Flexible AC
Transmission Systems (FACTS) and wind-power generation. Harmonic analysis, calculation of
Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), load flow, and other key power system analyses are
automated.

24 MicroTran

MicroTran Power Systems Analysis Corporation is a spinoff company of the University of British
Columbia (UBC), where the founders H. W. Dommel, J. R. Marti and L. Marti are (or were once)
based. MicroTran is the UBC version of the electromagnetic transients program EMTP.

25 Nexant (SCOPE)

Nexant is a California based company that develop SCOPE, an integrated set of power system
analysis tools intended for network operations. Functions include load flow, contingency
analysis, security constrained OPF and market simulations.

26 Phase to Phase (Vision Network Analysis)

Phase to Phase BV is a Dutch company and the developers of the Vision Power Range software
products. Vision Network Analysis has functions including load flow, short circuit, reliability,
protection and harmonic analysis. The software also includes a built-in programming language
for macro / script creation, as well as GIS integration.

27 Power Analytics (EDSA)

Power Analytics is a California based company that develop the Paladin suite of software
products (formerly called EDSA). Paladin DesignBase is an integrated power systems modelling
and analysis tool.
Functions include load flow, short circuit, arc flash simulations, OPF, reliability and capacity,
protection coordination, optimal sizing and placement of reactive power sources, dynamic
simulations, harmonic analysis, sizing tools (battery, cable, generator set, conduit, motor
parameter estimation, etc), cable pulling and earth grid design.
28 Powertech Labs (DSATools)

Powertech Labs are a subsidiary of Canadian utility BC Hydro and developers of the dynamic
security assessment and power systems analysis package DSATools. The tools are primarily
designed for online dynamic security assessment.
DSATools comprises four main modules:

 PSAT: Power flow and short circuit analysis tool

 VSAT: Voltage stability analysis tool
 TSAT: Transient stability analysis tool
 SSAT: Small signal analysis tool

29 PowerWorld

PowerWorld Corporation are a Champaign, Illinois based firm that develop the PowerWorld
Simulator suite of power systems analysis tools for Windows. The software focuses on a visual
approach to power system simulation.
Functions include load flow, short circuit, contingency analysis, sensitivity calculations, security
constrained OPF, transient stability, transmission line parameter calculations. Includes scripting
support.

30 PRDC (MiPower)

MiPower is an Indian product developed by Power Research and Development Consultants

(PRDC) - a Bangalore based consulting and software development company. MiPower is the
flagship product of PRDC comprising of a wide range of software applications for the design,
analysis and simulation of electrical power system (transmission, distribution and generation
systems). PRDC also owns several other products like Hydro-thermal Co-ordination, Web-based
packages, Renewable Energy Scheduling, Energy Auditing, Automated Fault Analysis System and
several other hardware and firmware for the power system community.
The history of MiPower dates back to a few decades and was among the first products that had
a graphical user interface. MiPower has been built with expertise from over four decades of
system operation, consulting and R&D in a country with one of the world's largest and most
complex networks. Today, MiPower is based on the state-of-the-art technologies and runs on
the latest Windows Operating System. Users of MiPower range from Canada to Japan and UK to
Fiji Islands.
The functions of MiPower include load flow, short circuit, Eigenvalue analysis, 3-phase load flow
(3pLFA), optimal power flow, contingency ranking and analysis, transient stability, motor
starting, protection, EMT analysis, harmonic analysis, SSR, voltage stability analysis, long-term
forecasting, network reduction, ground grid design, reliability, DC load flow and short circuit and
battery sizing.

31 ReticMaster

ReticMaster is a Windows-based tool from South Africa designed for the analysis of radial
networks. Functions include load flow, short circuit, motor starting and protection coordination.
32 SES & Technologies (CDEGS)

Safe Engineering Services & Technologies Ltd (SES; SES & Tech) is the world leader in grounding,
lightning, and electromagnetic interference computations. They are developers
of CDEGS (Current Distribution, Electromagnetic Fields, Grounding and Soil Structure Analysis), a
grouping of software modules described as "a powerful set of integrated engineering software
tools designed to accurately analyze problems involving grounding / earthing, electromagnetic
fields, electromagnetic interference including AC/DC interference mitigation studies and various
aspects of cathodic protection and anode bed analysis".
The package includes the following:

 RESAP: Soil Resistivity Analysis

 MALT: Low Frequency Grounding / Earthing Analysis
 MALZ: Frequency Domain Grounding / Earthing Analysis
 TRALIN: Line and Cable Constants (Parameters) & Induction Analysis
 SPLITS: Detailed Fault Current Distribution and EMI Analysis
 HIFREQ: Electromagnetic Fields Analysis
 FFTSES: Automated Fast Fourier Transform Analysis
 FCDIST: Simplified Fault Current Distribution Analysis
 Per the website, CDEGS capabilities are:
 Soil resistivity analysis and soil structure interpretation.
 Grounding analysis: arbitrary soil structures; any frequency & transients.
 Line constants for overhead and buried conductors or complex pipe-enclosed cable
arrangements.
 Load, fault & transient current distribution (in neutrals, shields, etc.).
 Cathodic protection analysis of complex buried networks.
 Inductive, conductive and capacitive interference in shared corridors.
 Frequency and time domain analysis of electromagnetic fields generated by arbitrarily
energized conductor networks (substations, transmission & distribution lines, industrial
plants, etc.)
Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows
8.1

33 Siemens PTI (PSS/E and SINCAL)

Siemens PTI is the consulting, software and training arm of Siemens AG. Siemens PTI offers the
Power Systems Simulator (PSS) product suite, which includes among others:

 PSS®E
 PSS®SINCAL
The Power System Simulator for Engineering (PSS/E) was one of the first GUI-based power
systems analysis software, and was first released in 1976. It was purchased by Siemens in 2005.
Functions include load flow, short circuit, dynamic simulations, OPF, contingency analysis
(probabilistic and deterministic), protection, eigenvalue / modal analysis, harmonics and small
signal stability. User-defined scripts can be created using a Python-style scripting language.
 Siemens Network Calculator (SINCAL) is a software pacakage with planning tools for electricity
as well as pipe networks (gas, water, heating / cooling). Functions relevant to power systems
analysis include load flow (balanced and unbalanced), short circuit, time-domain dynamic
simulations, eigenvalue and modal analysis (integrated with PSS®NETOMAC), harmonic analysis,
protection simulations (integrated with PSS®PDMS), reliability and contingency analysis.

34 SIMPOW

SIMPOW is an integrated power systems analysis software package. Functions include load flow,
short circuit, transient stability, voltage stability, small signal stability, SSR analysis, harmonic
analysis and frequency scans. SIMPOW was originally developed by Manitoba HVDC Research
Centre, but as of May 2014, ownership was transferred to Solvina.

35 SKM (Power*Tools for Windows)

SKM Systems Analysis are a California-based corporation that develop Power*Tools for
Windows (PTW), an integrated suite of power systems analysis tools aimed at industrial
systems. The original software, called DAPPER, was first released in 1978, though the initial
version of PTW wasn't released until 1995.
Functions include load flow, short circuit, demand load analysis, OPF, load schedules, feeder and
transformer sizing, protection coordination (CAPTOR), arc flash analysis, transient motor starting
(TMS), harmonic analysis (HI_WAVE), transient stability (I*SIM), distribution reliability, earth
grid design (GroundMat), dc load flow and short circuit analysis, battery sizing, cable pulling
analysis and equipment evaluation.

36 Tom (PASHA)

TOM Industrial Consultants CAD / CAM are an Iranian company and the developers of PASHA
(Power Apparatus & System Homological Analysis). PASHA modules include load flow, short
circuit, OPF, transient stability, motor starting, motor parameter estimation, reliability, harmonic
analysis and protection.

37 Xendee

Xendee is a San Diego based company providing cloud computing web applications for the
design and simulation of multi-phase unbalanced and three-phase balanced power systems,
along with micro-grids and next generation utility distribution systems.
Xendee works within most modern browsers on Apple Mac or Windows PCs, and integrates the
Electric Power Research Institute's (EPRI) Open Distribution System Simulator
(OpenDSS) analytics, and implements gamification in the user interface techniques to offer an
interactive and game-like experience. Nearly all frequency domain simulations such as power
flow and short circuit analysis are supported.