p-SWAMP

The Power Stability Wide Area Monitoring Protection (p-SWAMP) project provides an open, extensible Research & Development environment for future WAMS innovation. By offering a modular, microservices-based architecture and advanced simulation capabilities, p-SWAMP serves as a testbench for developing, validating, and deploying new technologies for monitoring grid stability, voltage performance, oscillatory behavior, and real-time system operations.

Built as a follow-up to the NEWEPS (Nordic Early Warning Early Prevention System) project developed with Statnett, Svenska kraftnät, RISE, SINTEF, NTNU, and KTH, p-SWAMP continues the mission of advancing early-warning algorithms for voltage stability and power oscillations, now with expanded capabilities, modern computing techniques, and AI-driven operator support tools.

Key Features

High-Resolution WAMS Environment

p-SWAMP ingests, processes, and analyzes PMU data at millisecond and microsecond precision, enabling real-time monitoring of voltage, frequency, oscillations, and dynamic system behavior.

Modular Microservices Architecture

Built using Kubernetes and modern cloud-native patterns, each p-SWAMP module can be independently developed, scaled, tested, or replaced, providing maximum flexibility for researchers and operators.

Advanced Visualization and 3D UI

The platform incorporates next-generation 3D visualization tools to assist operators in understanding grid conditions, topology, and stability margins at a glance.

AI and LLM-Enhanced Operations

p-SWAMP introduces AI-based analytics and LLM-driven user interaction for:

• Alarm handling
• Interpretation of complex data streams
• Pattern recognition in large datasets
• Operator assistance and system diagnostics

Support for Open Standards

The system leverages the ENTSO-E Common Information Model (CIM) for interoperability in simulation models and data representation.

High-Performance Computing for Real-Time Simulation

The platform supports parallel computing and advanced simulation techniques, enabling real-time stability assessment of transmission-level power systems.

p-SWAMP Implementation Architecture

p-SWAMP was developed based on the R&D Project NEWEPS by Statnett together with contributing Organization SINTEF, NTNU and RISE, and contributed to LF Energy in 2025.

Contributing Organizations