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Automatically identifies system reconfiguration measures to mitigate voltage and thermal violations that could not be mitigated using other measures System reconfiguration measure is switching out lines and transformers

AC contingency analysis on 8000-bus case (after topology processing): 5,758,474 processed contingencies within one simulation run 49,228 critical contingencies found (e.g., contingencies resulting in one of the constraints being violated) Execution time: 02:46:51.6440713 (~0.00174 sec/contingency) or about 34.5k contingencies per minute

High Performance Adaptive Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based Real Time Emergency Control to Enhance Power Grid Resilience in Stochastic Environments: Project team: PNNL, V&R Energy, Google and PacifiCorp Developing a DRL-based and analytical based hybrid emergency control method for transient stability preservation V&R Energy’s role: analytical approaches for generator tripping, load shedding and intentional islanding...

Real-time PMU-based distribution system analysis, including bad data detection, observability analysis, optimal PMU placement, distribution linear state estimation (DLSE), event detection based on machine learning FLISR, Volt VAR Optimization, DER Dispatch

Observing a trend across the utilities and ISOs to run massive N-1-1 and N-2 contingency analysis with automated remedial actions: Largest list seen so far is over 20 million contingencies in one simulation No screening – straight forward AC contingency analysis using full Newton method Integrated with automatic identification of remedial actions Contingency screening Implemented...

About 5 time faster than POM Suite/ROSE 2020

PMU-based EMS system that consists of multiple integrated applications: LSE POM Server Creates conditioned and expanded PMU data streams and corresponding observability analysis reports, bad data analysis reports and alarms, event logs and alarms Creates a PMU-based State Estimator cases (e.g., LSE Cases) and sends them as input to advanced applications, POM-Cascading Analysis and POM-OPM...

Uses CAISO CIM15XML model Based on Peak-ROSE VSA with enhancements per SDGE requirements Runs in real-time every time a Periodic File is received from CAISO at SDGE and works in off-line mode Deployed at SDGE

DOE Technology Commercialization Funds (TCF) project “Integration of PNNL Synchrophasor Analysis Tools into V&R Energy Real-Time Platform” The goal of the project is to integrate software applications for synchrophasor measurement analysis developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) into V&R Energy’s industry-grade real-time platform

A Low-Cost Distributed Energy Resource Gateway for DER Monitoring, Control, and Visualization Project team – Quanta Technology, V&R Energy, Central Hudson Gas & Electric.