PES GM 2026 Documents

Did you enjoy our demos at PES? Explore the resources below to keep learning and connect each demo to the right OPAL-RT solution.

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HIL Starter Kit

  • Most teaching labs and undergraduate courses struggle to adopt hardware-in-the-loop because of cost, complexity, and safety concerns.
  • The OPAL-RT HIL Starter Kit helps educators introduce real-world power electronics quickly, with an all-in-one platform for simulation, control, and validation.
  • Trusted by educators worldwide, it supports more than 100 teaching labs and universities with ready-to-use learning material and practical HIL workflows.

  • Bring real-world power electronics HIL into the classroom without unnecessary complexity.
  • The HIL Starter Kit combines compact hardware, software, cabling, and courseware for fast lab deployment.
  • Use this one-pager to understand the kit, its teaching value, and how it supports hands-on learning.

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SPS Software

  • SPS Software is a high-fidelity simulation solution for power systems and power electronics.
  • It preserves existing SimPowerSystems workflows while supporting accurate electrical and control models for complex systems.
  • Now developed and supported by OPAL-RT, SPS Software helps engineers move from familiar Simulink-based modeling toward real-time and HIL-ready workflows.

  • SPS Software marks a new era for the SPS community, preserving trusted models, workflows, and engineering expertise while enabling future innovation.
  • Built for modern power systems, it delivers accurate and efficient simulation of grids, converters, machines, loads, protection, and controls without compromising continuity or performance.
  • Advance your SPS workflows with OPAL-RT, bringing continuity, accuracy, and real-time readiness, from offline simulation to controller validation.

3

Data Centers

  • Data centers are becoming critical infrastructure in a rapidly evolving power grid.
  • Large dynamic loads, UPS systems, energy storage, and advanced controls create power behaviors that are difficult to validate safely on live equipment.
  • OPAL-RT supports data center power studies with fast-switching power electronics solvers, EMT simulation, phasor-domain workflows, and real-time HIL validation.

  • Data centers are evolving into grid-critical power ecosystems, where large dynamic loads, UPS, BESS, generators, cooling systems, protection, and power electronics must operate together reliably.
  • Real-time digital twins and HIL testing help teams study interconnection, stability, ride-through, load profiles, energy management, and failure scenarios before deployment.
  • Explore how OPAL-RT supports the complete data center gray space; from grid-side studies with HYPERSIM to EMS/DCIM validation and high-fidelity UPS/SST testing with eHS.

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Large-Scale Power System Real-Time Simulation

  • Large-scale studies can combine phasor-domain and EMT real-time simulation to capture both system-wide behavior and detailed fast dynamics.
  • This approach provides broad network coverage while preserving the accuracy needed to detect specific grid issues.
  • Our Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC)-specific technology demonstrates how OPAL-RT scales power system studies for modern grid planning, validation, and operator confidence.

  • Modern grid studies need both scale and accuracy as renewable integration and system complexity increase.
  • OPAL-RT enables large phasor-domain networks to run with detailed EMT areas where fast dynamics matter most.
  • Explore this resource to see how large-scale real-time co-simulation supports better grid analysis and validation.

5

Cybersecurity

  • Cyber-physical testing helps utilities, OEMs, and researchers evaluate how communication networks, protocols, and control systems affect power system stability.
  • OPAL-RT platforms can combine real-time grid simulation with communication network emulation to study delays, protocol behavior, and cyberattack scenarios.
  • These workflows support safer validation of digital substations, SCADA, IEDs, DER controllers, and critical infrastructure before field deployment.

  • As power systems become more digital, cybersecurity must be validated together with electrical behavior.
  • OPAL-RT cyber-physical simulation connects real-time grid models with communication and control-system testing.
  • Use this content to explore how realistic cyberattack and network scenarios can improve resilience before deployment.

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Inverter-Based Resources

  • Inverter-based resources such as PV, wind, BESS, and grid-forming inverters are reshaping grid behavior and creating new testing requirements.
  • OPAL-RT supports unit-level inverter validation, plant power controller testing, grid-code studies, black-box model integration, and large-scale IBR interaction analysis.
  • These resources show how real-time simulation helps validate IBR performance, stability, interoperability, and grid support functions across the project lifecycle.

  • IBR-dominated grids require accurate testing of inverter controls, plant-level coordination, and grid-forming behavior.
  • OPAL-RT helps engineers validate PV, BESS, and renewable-heavy systems from device-level HIL to large-scale grid studies.
  • Use these resources to explore grid-forming inverter validation and black-box model integration workflows.