Power System Blocks

About PowSyBl

PowSyBl (Power System Blocks) is an open-source library written in Java, dedicated to electrical grid modeling, visualization and simulation. The power system blocks may be used through scripts for a quick operations, but also be assembled to build state-of-the-art applications.

PowSyBl is part of the LF Energy Foundation, a project of The Linux Foundation that supports open-source innovation projects within the energy and electricity sectors.

One major aim of the project is to make it easy to write complex software for power system simulation and analysis.

A key characteristic of PowSyBl is its modular design, at the core of the open-source approach. It enables developers to extend or customize its features by providing their own plugins.

With PowSyBl, you can create applications that can:

Handle a large variety of formats, such as CIM-CGMES for European data exchanges;
Allow you to visualize the network and manipulate it endlessly;
Perform power flow simulations and security analyses on the network;
Optimize remedial actions in the network in order to relieve operational limits violations;
Perform short-circuit analyses on the network;
Perform dynamic simulations on the network.

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They use PowSyBl

PowSyBl is already used in several projects and organizations, discover them below.

Baltic RCC

Regional Coordinator Center for the Baltic region

Coreso

European Regional Coordination Center providing capacity calculation, security analysis and other services to the electricity grid

Dynawo

Open source time domain simulation tool for power systems using the Modelica language

emsys grid

Modeling and exporting forecasted network state in CGMES format. CGMES export validation according to ENTSOE norms & operator inputs

Farao

Open-source modular toolbox for power system coordination process

GridSuite

A suite of web-based tools for grid simulation and analysis

Neon research - ACCESS

Software package that helps simulate collaboration mechanisms for capacity and energy sharing among households in a neighborhood

Partners and vendors

The institutions below contribute to PowSyBl and/or build services and products based on PowSyBl. Please contact us if your institution ought to be listed here but is missing.