PES GM 2026 Documents

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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 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.

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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 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.

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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 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.