DSATools™ DSATools™ Core & Add-On Modules
PSAT | Powerflow & Short Circuit Assessment Tool
Perform large-scale steady-state analyses and contingency evaluations with speed and accuracy, streamlining transmission and generation planning.
PSAT enables large-scale steady-state power flow analyses and contingency evaluations, helping utilities, planners, and operators optimize transmission and generation planning. With its high-speed computation capabilities, PSAT ensures the reliability and efficiency of network simulations under various operating conditions.
CIM IMPORT
Common Information Model
Facilitate the import of power system models using the Common Information Model (CIM), ensuring data consistency and interoperability.
CIM Import facilitates seamless integration of power system models into DSATools, ensuring data consistency and interoperability between different platforms.
HARMONICS
Harmonics
Perform power quality analysis by assessing harmonic distortions, aiding in maintaining system integrity
The Harmonics module performs power quality analysis by identifying harmonic distortions, which helps utilities mitigate resonance and maintain compliance with power quality standards.
VSAT | Voltage Security Assessment Tool
Ensure voltage stability by assessing and identifying potential voltage security issues, facilitating proactive system reinforcement.
VSAT performs comprehensive voltage security assessments to identify potential voltage instability risks. By analyzing contingency impacts, reactive power deficiencies, and system stress points, VSAT helps operators take preventive actions to maintain grid stability.
OPF-RA
Remedial Actions based on Optimal Power Flow
Identify and implement optimal remedial actions to maintain system security and reliability under various operating conditions.
OPF-RA leverages optimal power flow algorithms to evaluate grid stability under different scenarios. It provides data-driven recommendations for corrective actions, helping operators improve resilience and prevent cascading failures.
UDM EDITOR
User-Defined Model Editor
Create and edit custom models for various control devices, enhancing modeling flexibility and accuracy.
UDM Editor allows users to create and customize dynamic models for generators, loads, and controllers, expanding DSATools modeling capabilities for advanced system studies.
TSAT | Transient Security Assessment Tool
Safeguard power systems against instability by swiftly analyzing transient events, pinpointing vulnerabilities, and guiding corrective strategies.
TSAT evaluates the dynamic response of power systems to disturbances such as faults, generator trips, or switching events. Using time-domain simulations, TSAT identifies stability vulnerabilities and guides utilities in implementing corrective strategies to mitigate transient instability risks.
Contingency Creator
Contingency Creator
Streamline contingency planning with automated scenario generation, ensuring comprehensive security assessments with minimal manual effort.
Contingency Creator automates the creation of contingency scenarios for use in security and stability studies. By efficiently generating and managing contingencies, it enhances the accuracy of system reliability assessments and supports proactive risk mitigation.
EPMU
Simulated PMU Data Generator
Generate time-synchronized phasor data from power system models, supporting advanced monitoring and analysis.
ePMU generates time-synchronized phasor data from power system models, supporting real-time situational awareness and event analysis.
TSAT-PSCAD INTERFACE
TSAT-PSCAD Interface (TPI)
Link TSAT with PSCAD for detailed electromagnetic transient analysis, improving simulation accuracy.
TPI links TSAT with PSCAD for electromagnetic transient simulations, providing more detailed event-based analysis for system planning and protection studies.
TSAT-RTDS INTERFACE
T-RTDS Interface (TRI)
Integrate TSAT with Real-Time Digital Simulators (RTDS), enhancing real-time simulation capabilities.
TRI integrates TSAT with Real-Time Digital Simulators (RTDS), enabling utilities to perform hardware-in-the-loop testing and real-time stability analysis.
UDM EDITOR
User-Defined Model Editor
Create and edit custom models for various control devices, enhancing modeling flexibility and accuracy.
UDM Editor allows users to create and customize dynamic models for generators, loads, and controllers, expanding DSATools modeling capabilities for advanced system studies.
SSAT | Small Signal Analysis Tool
Enhance system damping and stability with precise eigenvalue analysis that uncovers oscillatory modes and ensures robust control measures.
SSAT analyzes oscillatory stability and damping characteristics in power systems using eigenvalue-based analysis. By identifying low-damped or unstable modes, SSAT assists in designing control strategies, tuning power system stabilizers (PSS), and improving damping performance.
CDT
Control Design Toolbox
Systematically design and tune power system stabilizers, improving system damping and stability.
CDT provides systematic design and tuning tools for power system stabilizers (PSS), ensuring optimal damping of oscillatory modes and improving overall system stability.
SSR
Subsynchronous Resonance Analysis
Perform subsynchronous resonance analysis in the frequency domain, preventing potential turbine-generator shaft failures.
The SSR module performs subsynchronous resonance analysis, identifying interactions between electrical networks and mechanical components that could lead to turbine-generator shaft failures.
UDM EDITOR
User-Defined Model Editor
Create and edit custom models for various control devices, enhancing modeling flexibility and accuracy.
UDM Editor allows users to create and customize dynamic models for generators, loads, and controllers, expanding DSATools modeling capabilities for advanced system studies.
DSA Manager | On-line Dynamic Security Assessment
Coordinate and manage dynamic security assessments in real-time, integrating seamlessly with energy management systems for comprehensive system monitoring.
DSA Manager is the real-time monitoring and assessment hub for DSATools, integrating online dynamic security analysis (DSA) with Energy Management Systems (EMS). It provides operators with real-time contingency alerts, security assessments, and automated recommendations to enhance grid resilience.
ST DSA MANAGER
Study Mode for On-line DSA
Enable study mode operations within an online DSA system, facilitating detailed analysis and scenario planning.
ST DSA Manager enables study-mode operations within an online DSA environment, allowing operators to conduct detailed offline analysis and scenario planning without disrupting live operations.
PFDB
PFDB – Powerflow Database
Streamline power flow case management with an organized database designed for efficient storage, retrieval, and analysis of large-scale system data.
PFDB streamlines the creation and validation of powerflow base cases across large regions. Built for collaboration, it ensures data consistency, detects common modeling errors, and supports grid reliability through automated checks aligned with NERC/ERAG requirements.
SDDB
System Dynamics Database
Enable comprehensive steady-state and dynamic analysis with a structured database that simplifies data access and reporting.
System Dynamics Database (SDDB) provides a state-of-the-art approach for dynamic model management that includes automatic data validation and a comprehensive set of other features.
DYNRED
Dynamic Reduction
Reduce the complexity of large-scale dynamic models while preserving key system behaviors, making stability studies more efficient and manageable.
VOB
Visualization of System Security Boundary
reduce the complexity of large-scale dynamic models while preserving key system behaviors, making stability studies more efficient and manageable.
VOB enables real-time visualization of power system security using online DSA results and PMU data. Designed for operators and planners, it supports informed decision-making with intuitive displays, security limit tracking, and rich visual insights into system conditions and violations.
ModV
Model Validation Tool
Ensure accuracy and reliability in power system simulations by validating dynamic models against real-world field data.
TLDS
TLDS – Created for BC Hydro
Facilitate transmission line design and analysis with a dedicated tool, originally developed by Powertech for BC Hydro, ensuring compliance with industry standards and operational reliability.
"DSATools™ reflects decades of experience, development, and utility-driven feedback—our goal is to make power system assessment accurate, efficient, and actionable."
Jeff Bloemink
Division Manager, Software Technologies
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