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Conservation Voltage Reduction: Smart Grid Feeder Simulator

Interactive distribution-feeder simulator: lower the substation voltage within the ANSI C84.1 band and watch a real backward-forward power-flow sweep show how constant-impedance loads quietly draw less power, cutting neighborhood demand.

Energy & Thermodynamics3DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version
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This simulator models a real radial distribution feeder — a substation feeding a line of houses — and solves it with the same backward-forward power-flow sweep utilities use in practice. Lower the substation voltage (the load-tap-changer setting) and watch every house's real power demand fall automatically, because most residential loads draw less power at lower voltage. A ZIP-model slider lets you control how much of the neighborhood's load behaves like constant impedance (full CVR benefit) versus constant power (none), while live readouts track the worst-case feeder-end voltage against the ANSI C84.1 Range A band, so you can push demand down without tripping a utility's under-voltage limit.

⚙ Under the hood

Model a real distribution feeder with a backward-forward power-flow sweep: lower the substation voltage within the ANSI C84.1 band and watch constant-impedance household loads automatically draw less power, cutting neighborhood-wide demand without anyone noticing.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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