Analytics
Advisory and consulting services
Global team of power system experts
Smart Wires Analytics team provides a range of advisory services to transmission owners and operators around the world, including studies for generation and load connections, power system planning, and technology integration.
Our power system experts have used advanced software and modeling to develop solutions for more than 100 power systems across Europe, Australia, North America and South America. Many of our experts have worked directly in the network planning and operation departments of some of leading transmission system operators, so they understand the unique needs of these organizations.
We provide both remote and on-site services, with the option to embed an expert in your team for a period of time. Our experts are fluent in a dozen languages and located in time zones around the world, allowing us to effectively connect and communicate based on your needs.
We are committed to providing transparent and auditable results that enable easy integration of our solutions and help you achieve your strategic goals.
The Smart Wires difference
- Wide range of services available, including tailor-made packages
- Specialized expertise in modeling and integrating modular SSSCs
- RTDS testing lab on-site
- Experience developing solutions for over 100 power systems
- Global team of power system experts across multiple time zones
- Collaborating with planning software vendors to develop generic SSSC models
Advisory and consulting services
Studies
We offer a wide variety of study services to suit the individual needs of each customer
- Steady state contingency analysis
- Boundary/path/transfer capacity optimization
- Maintenance outage scheduling
- Short circuit
- Cost-benefit assessments
- Production cost analysis
- Congestion management
- Power system balancing
- Control interactions (including SSCI)
- Sub-synchronous resonance and torsional interaction (SSR and SSTI)
- Dynamic performance
- Harmonic emissions
- Harmonic immunity
- Frequency analysis
- System strength
- Lightning
- Switching
- Temporary overvoltage
- Transient recovery voltage
- Additional insulation coordination
- Independent study review
- Connection and interconnection studies
- Network model development
- Hardware-in-the-loop (including protection relay-in-the-loop)
- Transient voltage stability
- Voltage stability margin
- New applications
- Bespoke studies
SmartValve™ models
We can provide product models* in the following platforms to facilitate your studies:
- PowerFactory*
- INTEGRAL*
- Organon*
- ASPEN
- MATLAB® / Simulink®
- PSCAD™/ EMTDC
- PSLF
- PSS®E
- RSCAD/RTDS
- TSAT
- PowerWorld
- NEPLAN
*SSSC model readily available in the software
Developing solutions for critical grid challenges
A large renewable developer faced challenging costs and timelines for one of their projects in the United States. Compared to the traditional network upgrade initially proposed, our solution could be delivered three years faster and reduce interconnection costs by 80%.
A Canadian utility wanted to increase reliable power transfers to neighboring regions and developed a variety of options, ranking them via a MW/$M metric. We developed an array of alternate solutions with MW/$M values which were an order of magnitude better than the original approaches.
A European utility questioned the system impacts of multiple SmartValve installations to unlock 100s of MWs of network capacity. We modeled system interactions via detailed time-domain simulations including HIL studies and found no adverse impacts across dozens of operating conditions.
Modelling SmartValve in network planning software
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Technical papers
Bringing your grid to the future
Powerful synergies exist when SmartValve is combined with our analytics and advisory services, and dynamic line rating software SUMO. With this suite of grid enhancing technologies, we combine the power of modelling, analytics, dynamic ratings, and digital power flow control to help grid operators meet the demands of renewable energy adoption and demand-side electrification across the world.