Bigwood Systems, Inc World Class Tools for Power Network Security Assessment, Enhancement and Applications

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Successful BSI Implementations

With more than twenty clients worldwide, BSI provides products and services to customers in North America , Central America , Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia , including major electric and gas utilities in the Northeastern United States and the largest private electric power company in the world, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tokyo , Japan .

Our industrial alliances with EMS and electrical component vendors include ABB Automation, Inc. Sugar Land, Texas, U.S.A., Fuji Electric Company R&D Ltd., Tokyo, Japan , and TEPCO Systems Corporation (TEPSYS), a subsidiary of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tokyo, Japan.

BSI and TEPCO are co-owners of the TEPCO-BCU package and BSI entered in a joint development and marketing relationship with TEPSYS to resell the on-line DSA tool in Japan .

ABB is a reseller of our On-line Dynamic Security Assessment software. BSI’s transient stability analysis capability is integrated with ABB’s EMS at two major installations, CFE, the national power company of Mexico and Commonwealth Edison, Chicago , IL .

Our Voltage Stability Analysis and Enhancement tool is integrated for on-line operations at PJM Interconnection, Norristown , Pa and at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Chattanooga , TN.


About Bigwood Systems, Inc.

Bigwood Systems, Inc. was founded in 1995 to provide the utility industry with high-quality software solutions growing out of cutting-edge research and development work. BSI has an excellent tracking record of identifying and developing innovative technologies and applying them in a cost-effective fashion to solve critical problems facing the power industry and utility companies related to engineering analysis, design, maintenance, operations and planning. At BSI all technology development is focused on solutions to the problems and needs of our customers and the utility industry.

The company invented and holds rights to five U. S. patents and another four pending patent applications in this area of expertise. Today, the BSI corporate office is located in the Cornell Business and Technology Park at 35 Thornwood Drive, Suite 400, Ithaca, NY 14850 with a branch office in Shanghai, China.

BSI's SecureSuiteTM

BSI is recognized as a world leader in developing methodologies for security assessment and control and their implementation. BSI’s SecureSuiteTM offers on-line solutions to Energy Management Control Center operations and off-line study tools to utility planning and engineering departments, all built on the patented BSI foundation. The SecureSuiteTM includes: Transient Stability Analysis and Enhancement (TEPCO-BCU), Voltage Stability Analysis and Enhancement (VSA&E), Small-Signal Stability Analysis and Enhancement (ECLIPS), Static Security Assessment and Corrective Control (SSA&C), and Security-Constrained Available Transfer Capability Analysis (SC-ATC).

BSI's Broad Expertise

On the distribution network side, BSI has developed and markets its GOLD Suite of tools for distribution system analysis and control. The suite is an integrated package for distribution system analysis, fast network service restoration, system loss minimization via network reconfiguration, and optimal capacitor placement and control.

BSI is involved in ongoing research and product development in the application of Global Optimization Technologies in Power Systems. Other application products developed and deployed by BSI include Engineering Analysis and Management Tools for Deregulation and Automated Map Digitization, Data Capture and Management Systems.

The BSI staff has an extensive background in the electric and gas utility business, with a high degree of technical expertise and experience in utility research and applications. Consultation, training, technology transfer and education are important components of our solutions to better serve our customers.

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Contact Information

Telephone: 607-257-0915
Fax: 607-257-0237
Email: sales@bigwood-systems.com

Cornell Business and Technology Park
35 Thornwood Drive
Suite 400
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A Directions

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