What’s New At OPAL-RT

We are thrilled to announce the opening of our new office in Warsaw, Poland! It is a strategic decision that reinforces our commitment to develop and better serve the Central EU market by expanding our local sales and support capabilities.
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Explore the latest news in Power Systems and learn about OPAL-RT’s latest technical achievements in the 3rd Edition of our Power in Mind Newsletter.

Our 14th annual conference on real-time simulation took place in Montréal, Quebec from October 18th to 21st. RT22 brought together engineers and researchers from around the world to discover the latest trends in real-time simulation and to inspire one another to expand the boundaries, using these technologies to help build a better tomorrow.

Discover how a research alliance led by Siemens Technology— and supported by OPAL-RT, PNNL, and Hawaiian Electric (and funded by the US Department of Energy, ARPA-E)--is evaluating how the largest Hawaiian island may be able to operate reliably with fewer conventional plants to facilitate up to 100 percent renewable energy with the help of an assistant system.

Discover how ENGIE Laborelec uses OPAL-RT’s platform in several of their projects and why for them, the main and driving contribution of OPAL-RT is the exemplary Customer Support that they receive from OPAL-RT's Support team.

Discover the latest in real-time simulation and make your innovative ideas a reality through a series of webinars & demos .
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Learn how the GEISER group of the University of Alcala, sponsored by the Velox-PS company, used OPAL-RT’s OP5707XG real-time simulator with the goal of running the primary control outside the converter. That is, to run it on an external real-time simulator or an external server.

OPAL-RT is pleased to announce a collaborative agreement with Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional (CEN) of Chile to start using OPAL-RT's real-time simulation expertise and experience in the modeling of a digital twin of their electrical network.

Learn how SNCF Voyageurs' project, SimHIL, uses Hardware in the Loop simulation systematically in order to test railway traction chain control electronics, and, in so doing, prevent risks and significantly reduce the costs and delays of this essential testing process.
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Discover why Schneider Electric uses OPAL-RT products for HIL testing to simulate eight Active Harmonic Filter (AHF) units in parallel. This enables simulation of customer harmonics issues with more accuracy--and allows them to test and incrementally improve their firmware before release.
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We hope you enjoyed OPAL-RT's 13th conference on real-time simulation. In case you didn't have a chance to attend the live virtual conference, you can still watch all recordings available in our Resource Center.

As with other electrical systems, field testing of microgrid products and integrated systems on live grids can be risky. For these reasons, many microgrid applications are well suited to HIL and PHIL testing. Discover how OPAL-RT strives to help engineers employ these types of Real-Time Simulation for their microgrid projects.

Using today’s computational resources and advanced models, OPAL-RT has the capability to create high-fidelity digital twins of power systems for both real-time and accelerated applications. This new simulation technology will benefit utilities, research laboratories and manufacturers in new ways, enabling planning and operation activities with fresh insight and an overall greatly increased output capacity.

Globally connected grids are rapidly becoming a reality. Learn about OPAL-RT’s involvement with the Global Real-Time Super Laboratory (Global RT-Super Lab), a vendor-neutral distributed platform based on the virtual interconnection of Real-Time Simulators and Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) setups hosted at eight geographically distributed laboratories located in the USA and Europe.

Building a quality PHIL setup requires components to be carefully selected not just for their technical capability but also for their inter-compatibility. With the Microgrid PHIL Test Bench, OPAL-RT has taken the guesswork and risk out of PHIL with a turnkey product that offers one of the highest performance and versatile setups in the market.

Discover OPAL-RT and D&V's combined PHIL solution for motor emulation and DC power testing.

OPAL-RT has created powerful, open, and flexible test systems from off-the-shelf components that leverage NI’s Switch, Load, and Signal Conditioning (SLSC) platform. Learn how you can easily access & interact with your electronic control unit or device under test .

Despite the current global fight against COVID-19, OPAL-RT continues to work hard in serving its customers with the best operational efficiency possible.