Contingency Analysis

The Contingency Analysis tool in DIgSILENT PowerFactory has been designed to offer a high degree of flexibility in configuration, calculation methods and reporting options. Single- and multiple- time-phase contingency analyses are available, both of which offer automatic or user-defined contingency creation based on events, and the consideration of controller time constants and thermal (short-term) ratings.

• AC, DC and AC linearised analysis methods, including regional assessment
• Outage levels: n-1, n-2, n-k
• Fast contingency screening with recalculation of critical cases using AC method
• Single and multiple time phase consideration
• Dynamic contingencies option for creating fault cases “on the fly”
• Remedial Action Schemes for flexible and dynamic analysis of post-fault actions
• Substation automation via switching schemes
• User-configured time-sweep analysis with parallelisation option
• Generator effectiveness and quad booster effectiveness
• Enhanced Fault Case management
• Comprehensive spreadsheet reporting features, including graphical ­visualisation of critical cases
• Tracing of individual contingency cases
• Contingency comparison mode
• Parallelised Contingency Analysis using multiple cores