Collaborations

Department of Energy
IncSys has been selected by the Department of Energy to participate in the prestigious Smart Grid Workforce Training & Development program. With the multi-million dollar award, IncSys will extend the functionality of PowerSimulator™ to model all 8 NERC regions and simulate new smart grid technologies so that operators, engineers and students can learn to prevent major power system events. learn more

EPRI
EPRI creates science and technology solutions for the global energy and energy services industry. U.S. electric utilities established the Electric Power Research Institute in 1973 as a nonprofit research consortium for the benefit of utility members, their customers, and society. Developed in the 1970's, the EPRI OTS is the engine which drives PowerSimulator, as well as the many of the largest control rooms around the world. learn more.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The Electricity Infrastructure Operations Center (EIOC) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory brings together industry-leading software, real-time grid data and advanced computation into a fully capable control room. Shaped with input from utilities, technology vendors and researchers across the Northwest, the EIOC serves as a unique platform for researching, developing and deploying technologies to better manage and control the grid. IncSys and PNNL have been cooperating on cognitive task analysis as a basis for operator training and operator decision tools since fall of 2008. IncSys and PNNL pioneered a formal human factors study of operator performance with a control group and an experimental group to evaluate the effectiveness of Graphical Contingency Analysis. Control room operators from several Northwestern utilities participated in exercises identifying and preventing the occurrence of cascading blackouts using the 29 station PALCO system and PowerSimulator. learn more