PSS®E 36.2.1

Latest update

December 27, 2025

License Price

145 $

OS

Windows

PSS®E 36.2.1

Power System Simulator for Engineering (PSS®E—often written as PSS/E) is a software tool used by power system engineers to simulate electrical power transmission networks in steady-state conditions as well as over timescales of a few seconds to tens of seconds.

Psse transmission planning and analysis – Siemens

Improve efficiency and ensure reliability

Benefits of using PSS®E

Comprehensive modeling capabilities that enable sophisticated analyses and accuracy, while also saving time
Improved system reliability while saving and reducing infrastructure costs
Improved work processes and efficiency
Integration into a client’s workflow via built-in Python APIs
Rapid assessments provide fast responses to constantly changing network conditions and the resulting effects
Fast and easy anticipation of network problems and analyses of alternatives
Calculation of the area exchanges in the planning network model

Unique advantages of PSS®E

Trusted results that are used as benchmarks in the industry and academic literature
Data and models that are easily exchangeable with other entities across the industry
Access to resources: rich ecosystem of documentation, online forums, script libraries, model libraries, and other fellow PSS^®E users around the world
Interoperability with an enormous landscape of other industry tools
Vast automation and customization potential via APIs, which are among the most flexible in the industry and are based on open Python™ technology

Powerful, customizable, and fully-featured software

PSS®E slider diagrams with geographical map backgrounds

Traditional bus-branch single-line diagram with no breaker outages

Node-breaker ring-bus substation diagram with a breaker outage

PSS®E slider diagrams with geographical map backgrounds

Example of diagrams in PSS®E

Traditional bus-branch single-line diagram with no breaker outages

Node-breaker ring-bus substation diagram with a breaker outage

PSS®E slider diagrams with geographical map backgrounds

Example of diagrams in PSS®E

PSS®E standard features

Fast and robust power flow solution for network models of up to 200,000 buses
Lightning-fast steady-state contingency analysis, including automatic corrective actions and remedial action system modeling
Full node-breaker support for detailed modeling of substation topology
Automated PV/QV analysis with plot generation
Powerful program automation and customization with fully-featured Python^® API
Balanced and unbalanced fault analysis and contingency analysis (deterministic and probabilistic)
Comprehensive power flow and dynamics model library, including emerging technologies such as advanced FACTS devices and wind turbines
Code-based, user-written model building
Powerful, easy-to-use integrated plot facility
Graphical construction of user-defined controller models
Local Model Management functionalities to enable a user to seamlessly manage the various files (base case, network models, project changes, etc.) required to build new cases.

Software

Price: 145 $

Price Currency: $

Operating System: Windows

Application Category: Electrical Engineering

Editor's Rating:
5

Latest update

December 27, 2025

License Price

145 $

OS

Windows

3 reviews for PSS®E 36.2.1

Rated 4 out of 5

john – September 4, 2025

A good software, easy to use
Rated 3 out of 5

Mehret Fenta – September 15, 2025

best
Rated 3 out of 5

Mehret Fenta – September 15, 2025

WORK ON POWER SYSTEMS

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