•  The lab, set up in 1997, is one of the key labs of SGCC.

•  The lab, equipped with analog/digital hybrid simulator for power system simulation, is able to study the entire transition process from electro-magnetic transient to electro-mechanical transient.

•  The lab is capable of simulating AC-DC power system of up to four complete traditional bipolar DC links, one VSC-based DC link, 40 digital generator (load) models and as many as ten thousand kilometers of power transmission line.

•  The simulation center is mainly used to do studies on power system optimization, operation status analysis and control and protection strategy for AC-DC parallel operation system. Since the establishment of the center, it has accomplished a number of research programs of AC and DC power systems, including the simplification of Three Gorges power grid, Tianshengqiao-Guangzhou AC-DC power transmission, TCSC projects, 750 kV EHV power transmission, multi-in-feed HVDC power transmission of South China power grid and the first phase of out-sending project of Jinsha River Hydropower.