SPS Lab at CRESROADS 2026

Our lab took part in CRESROADS 2026, the annual gathering of the CRESYM research community on open architectures and dynamic simulations for the future power system. The event brought together researchers, TSOs, and industry partners working on open-source modelling, simulation, and digital-twin tooling for transmission networks.

The SPS Lab was represented by Petros Aristidou and Savvas Panagi, who presented the TRAISIM project — our open-source real-time Training Simulator for Power System Operators, developed jointly with Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE) and CRESYM.

The poster summarises the Year-1 benchmarking effort on the RTE 6,000-bus French transmission network, identifies the KLU Analyze symbolic factorization as the dominant bottleneck under topology-changing events, and lays out the 2026 extension workplan: solver optimisation, an AI-driven Adaptive Model Selection (AMS) module based on a GATv2 graph-attention network, orchestrator co-design, and validation & dissemination.

The related PSCC 2026 paper — Towards an Open-Source Real-Time Operator-Training Platform: Analysis of Computational Efficiency — will be presented in Limassol, June 8–12, 2026.