Technical Specifications

AGORA (Advanced Grid Observation Reliable Algorithms) is the most reliable and accurate monitoring, restoration and planning tool available for electric grid network operators.

Since AGORA is based on non-iterative mathematics, it is highly accurate, even during disturbances. AGORA is also one of the easiest tools to implement and train operators to use, because it leverages current systems and user interfaces.

AGORA's central load flow algorithm evolved from the development of an automated electrical network restoration system based on the exploration of electrical state space. Rejecting the classical rule-based expert system, advances were made through non-iterative load flow algorithms. These algorithms are capable of accurately monitoring a network even when approaching voltage collapse.

Conventional methodologies have a difficult time processing large numbers of simultaneous system changes. Their power flow studies are traditionally performed off-line using a method in which system values rely heavily on historical loads and generation trends. Since actual disturbances rarely match analyzed cases, reliance on such off-line data may lead to restoration delays or failures.

AGORA, on the other hand, relies on actual and immediate real-time values from an Energy Monitoring System (EMS). A highly-accurate power flow analysis and state estimated solution is completed every 2 minutes, 24x7, with a successful solution rate (or convergence rate as described when using other methods) of nearly 100%.