Grid and Energy Simulation Solutions
- Modeling & Prototyping
- Monitoring
- Microgrids & Inverters
- Grid Compliance & Security
Improve grid reliability and interoperability with solutions to test and emulate real-world grid conditions.
Network Modeling
Model a grid communication network containing nodes, endpoints, links, and application traffic, then run repeatable tests for cyber resilience.
Protocol & Load Test
Validate network protocol performance under realistic application loads to ensure service-level reliability across grid communication systems.
Network Failover Validation
Emulate real-world Ethernet impairments to test grid communication reliability, validate fail-over mechanisms, and prepare for degraded network conditions.
Grid Control System Test
Automate functional and regression testing of grid management applications using model-based simulation to speed deployment and enhance operational quality.
Strengthen grid reliability and security with real-time network visibility and wireless performance insights.
Network Visibility
Deliver comprehensive traffic insights from all network types to accelerate issue resolution and enhance grid reliability.
Network Field Monitoring
Streamline wireless grid network testing, optimization, benchmarking, and analytics to boost network quality and automate workflows.
Emulate grid conditions, test inverters, and simulate energy sources to ensure reliable and efficient microgrid operation.
Regenerative Power Test
Deliver high-power, bidirectional DC energy to test inverters and storage systems with efficiency, safety, and regenerative energy recovery.
AC and Grid Emulation
Emulate dynamic three-phase grid conditions to validate inverter behavior, microgrid stability, and fault-ride-through capabilities.
Dynamic Inverter DC Emulation
Perform dynamic inverter input tests with a controllable high-power DC source, with programmable voltage and current conditions.
EV / EVSE Charging Equipment
Validate EV and charging infrastructure interoperability to ensure reliable integration with microgrids and distributed energy systems.
Battery Test & Energy Storage
Test and characterize batteries under realistic load profiles to improve storage performance and ensure safe microgrid operation.
Photovoltaic Array Simulation
Replicate photovoltaic (PV) module characteristics to test grid-connected inverters under diverse irradiance and temperature conditions.
Photovoltaic Inverter Test
Automate complex PV inverter test sequences to validate efficiency, grid compliance, and advanced functionality in microgrid environments.
Test and validate DERs and grid network security across a range of real-world scenarios ensure compliance with global conformance and security standards.
Anti-Islanding Conformance
Automate anti-islanding testing aligned with IEEE 1547.1-2020 / UL 1741 SB standards for fast, repeatable grid compliance testing.
NERC CIP-015-1 Compliance
Use network packet brokers to aggregate traffic from network taps, and provide data for anomaly detection, evaluation, and investigation.
IoT Security Assessment
Assess and strengthen the security of grid-connected IoT devices by identifying vulnerabilities and ensuring compliance with industry standards.
Device Vulnerability Analysis
Identify and mitigate security weaknesses in grid-connected devices through fault injection and side-channel analysis.
Network Security & Device Test
Enhance grid security by simulating threats, eliminating blind spots, and maintaining control over evolving attack surfaces.
Threat Simulator
Emulate real-world cyberattacks to assess and strengthen the resilience of grid networks and control systems.
Explore Grid and Energy Use Cases
Grid modernization is connecting utilities, distributed energy resources, communications, and operations areas into a complex energy ecosystem. Advanced grid simulation software and grid emulation systems can help engineers to understand the behavior of this interconnected grid, and ensure its reliability. While this transformation presents many challenges, rigorous grid compliance testing and robust grid cybersecurity are essential to protect critical infrastructure and unlock the significant benefits of a modernized grid. Explore use cases for testing grid applications.
Discover Grid Simulation and Energy Emulation Resources
Grid modernization is a fundamental shift incorporating technologies like telecommunications, distributed energy resources (DER), battery storage, solar power, and grid cybersecurity that will reshape how the world generates, distributes, and consumes electricity. This transformation strives to tackle concerns about aging infrastructure, increasing blackouts, and increasing environmental impacts to ensure a more sustainable, reliable, and secure energy system moving forward. Explore solutions for grid simulation and emulation for both high-power testing and complex connected grid communications network scenarios.
WHITE PAPER
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Solution Brief
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eBook
Accelerate V2G compliance testing using Keysight’s automated tools for efficient test workflows.
Poster
Ensure grid modernization success with Keysight’s test solutions for secure, reliable networks.
Expert Insights
Learn what grid modernization offers as the world demands more electricity to power AI data centers, EVs, and industries. Listen to insights from our experts on how power grid simulators and network visibility and cybersecurity tools help ensure a more resilient and secure power grid of the future.
Grid Simulation and Emulation Solutions FAQs
A grid simulator replicates real‑world power grid conditions in a controlled lab environment, allowing engineers to safely test distributed energy resources (DERs) and inverter-based resources (IBRs) for renewable integrations, and validate smart‑grid devices before deployment.
Grid simulation enables realistic modeling of voltage fluctuations, frequency changes, and inverter responses, helping engineers validate how solar, wind, energy‑storage, and other DER and IBR systems interact with modern grids under dynamic conditions.
Grid simulation allows power utility engineers to model cyberattacks, test defenses, and train security systems without risking live operations. Paired with a power emulator, teams can validate relays, controllers, and patches using hardware-in-the-loop scenarios, prioritize high-risk assets, strengthen detection. Discover how to protect modern energy infrastructure with Keysight's grid cybersecurity resources.
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