SCOPE® Power System Analysis and Optimization

SCOPE® is the industry's most sophisticated software application for power system engineers. It complements the traditional suite of power system analysis software by providing advanced features required to solve the difficult problems of today's grids, including:

• Transmission planning-conducting studies of transmission equipment feasibility, siting, interconnection, and engineering design
• Decision-making under outage conditions-providing a solution that enables operators and engineers to make decisions even when the base case is significantly degraded due to outages or bad states
• Operational planning-performing rapid powerflow and contingency analysis studies with user-defined contingency lists to confirm reliability status-such as powerflow and contingency analysis and performing look-ahead simulations
• Optimal power flow (OPF)-offering an unparalleled choice of objective functions (single or combined) and constraint definitions to enable modeling and study of remedial control actions, MW transfer maximization, loss minimization, capacitor installation (sizing and placement), etc.
• Market simulations-simulating economic cost or price-based dispatch in mixed spot and bilateral markets, as well as comprehensive zonal and nodal location marginal pricing
• Reactive power prices-defining the value of reactive power and setting the price for generation bids in day-ahead or real-time markets

SCOPE is fast and reliable. It is delivered as the EMS dispatcher powerflow, real-time contingency analysis and real-time OPF in over 120 control centers around the world. This real-time experience makes it the most robust study tool for power engineers and the perfect bridge between the operational world (breaker-node) and the planning world (bus-branch).

SCOPE functionality includes:

• Power flow analysis
• Network topology processor
• Contingency analysis
• Switching control
• Security constrained optimal powerflow
• Flexible data manager with conversion to all standard formats
• Comprehensive macro language to automate studies
• Graphical user interface for intuitive input and report management