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Empower the Grid

Unlock Your Potential
with Scalable
Dynamic Line Ratings

forecast
with confidence

Increase
Operational Flexibility

Accelerate transition
to clean energy

Can your transmission lines handle
future demands on infrastructure?

IS YOUR GRID EXPERIENCING CONGESTION?

Your customers are feeling the pain
Accommodating &
importing renewables
Operational constraints & forecast uncertainty
Increased demand for electricity

High maintenance costs

Costly sensor systems
Under-Utilized Capacity
Health & safety of aging
transmission assets
Lack of situational awareness to monitor and manage span-to-span

Technology that Bridges
to Future Demands

Expanding Transmission Grid Capacity for Clean Energy

accuracy
of forecasting

Scalability
& Transferability

Flexibility & efficiency
with advanced simulations

We Understand the Challenges of Adapting the Grid to Changing Demands

How do we create the bridge to the future?

We are the authority on applying Computational Fluid Dynamics over complex terrain

Co-development with Idaho National Laboratory and other technology industry partners
We have mastered diverse applications of wind modeling

Validated DLR deployments and shown 40% enhanced ampacities

Actively engaged in industry and standards organizations

We are leaders in scaling and enabling increased grid capacity

Your Steps to a
Scalable Solution

Schedule a Demo

Identify critical spans
& calculate the cool

GAIN OPERATIONAL
CAPACITY & FLEXIBILITY

WindSim Power Line

WindSim Power Line provides an enhanced view of the conditions of transmission lines by modeling wind at high spatial resolution and computing thermal interactions.
 

Key Benefits

  • Forecasts for up to 72 hours ahead
  • Adheres to IEEE-738 and CIGRE
  • Identification of critical spans
  • Real-time span-by-span monitoring
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • Installs without disruption to service
  • Integrates with legacy systems
  • Increases capacity with no extra CAPEX

The Bridge to the Future

A big part of the world’s electricity decarbonization challenge lies in expanding transmission capacity for renewables — and according to energy experts, Europe and the US are falling behind on that task. Meanwhile, US consumers pay more than $6B in transmission congestion costs, resulting in hundreds of GW (gigawatts) of renewable energy stuck in interconnection queues, waiting to connect to the grid.

At the same time, grid utilization rates are often as low as 30-50%, meaning there is excess capacity on today’s wires that could be leveraged to solve these problems.

Solutions will require game-changing technology that can significantly increase the utilization of the electric grid.

WindSim Power understands that grid-enhancing technologies (GETS) are cost-effective tools to unlock capacity and bridge current infrastructure to the future.

That’s what Dynamic Line Ratings (DLR) technologies do.

With the WindSim Power Line solution, the transmission owner can scale this technology to improve utilization, reduce costly grid congestion, and speed interconnection of renewables.

DLR and GETS both serve to facilitate energy transition and decrease CO2 emissions. These attributes increase long-term investor attractiveness founded on the incorporation of Environmental Sustainable and Governance (ESG) metrics into their capital allocation and stewardship criteria.

GETs and DLR can bridge the timing gap while waiting for a more permanent solution.

WindSim has years of experience in the wind and solar industries and has co-developed WindSim Power Line with the Idaho National Laboratory and other industry partners. They are leaders in operationalizing data, information technology, and cybersecurity.

WindSim Power is backed by 20 years of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) experience and proven forecasting methodologies that yield actionable and reliable results.

Empower the Grid

Unlock your potential
with scalable
Dynamic Line Ratings

Empower the Grid

Unlock your potential
with scalable
Dynamic Line Ratings