V&R Energy is a Southern California based Power Systems Research, Power Engineering Software, and Power Systems Consulting company. V&R Energy is a leading provider of the advanced power systems engineering solutions designed to improve the stability and reliability of the electrical Transmission and Distribution networks. Our areas of expertise include: • Improving reliability of the transmission grid to facilitate integration of the renewable energy; • Predicting and preventing the Cascading Outages; • Transmission system optimization in order to fully maximize the utilization of the existing infrastructure; • Utilizing the PMU data to predict and prevent the power system instability; • Bringing transient stability analysis into the real-time environment of the Control Centers; • Automating NERC-compliance studies for the purpose of compliance with the latest NERC TPL standards; • Automating the process for ranking and prioritization of the future expansion projects, and performing cost/benefit analysis. V&R Energy empowers the utilities to succeed in today's competitive environment by enabling them to effectively and accurately assess the grid conditions and take timely control actions in order to prevent the occurrences of major catastrophic events. Our solutions are based on Physical and Operational Margins (POM) Suite of applications, which is a comprehensive Load Flow, Voltage Stability, Transient Stability, Contingency Analysis, Transmission and Distribution System Optimization, Power Transfer Analysis tool for the Real-Time, Operations and Planning environments. We have been closely working with the electric utility community, both in the US and internationally, various research organizations, and US federal government (DOE).