EDD is a leading edge software company serving the utility industry. We partner with small and large utility companies to provide modeling solutions that address the industry's most demanding issues. If its a current utility concern, chances are we've developed a modeling application that addresses it. If it's something entirely new, then we likely have the staff and expertise to develop a modeling solution for it.

Our core product is the DEW (Distribution Engineering Workstation) software suite, which enables the construction of a complete working model for the entire power grid, from the transmission level through primary and secondary distribution networks. Using DEW and an Integrated System Model (ISM) allows utilities to build and maintain a single model that can serve all of their modeling needs.

Designers and Planners use EDD & DEW to analyze design improvements, resolve capacity constraints, optimize capital improvement projects, maximize efficiencies and system reliability, etc.

Operations teams utilize EDD & DEW to assist in outage responses, optimize system reconfiguration and restoration efforts, evaluate switching configurations and system impacts, and integrate with smart grid installations to enable automated real time controls. The component level detail of the model allows it to simulate actual system behaviors as they occur. Using this information can eliminate unforeseen impacts from an unplanned emergency response.

Browse our DEW/ISM product and services pages to learn more about what EDD can DEW for you, or check out the EDD News page for links to industry-related publications and white papers.

Meet the core team at EDD:

John Federowicz, PE	President
Robert Broadwater, PhD	Chief Technology Officer
Jeff Thompson, PhD	Product Development Manager
Rich Sequin	Key Accounts Manager
Kevin Russell	Resource Manager
Mark Leyo, PE	Customer Solutions Manager
Bill Tolley	Product Support Manager
Bob Torgersen	Operations Manager
Dan Zhu, PhD	Software Development
Danling Cheng, PhD	Software Development
Darrell Loyd	Software Development
David Kleppinger, PhD	Software Development
Lynn Feinauer, PhD	Software Development
Max Zhong	Software Development
Murat Dilek, PhD	Software Development
Roddy DeHart	Systems Engineer

 

The development of EDD’s Distributed Engineering Workstation (DEW) software began as a research project at Virginia Tech in 1989.  In 1992 the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) funded a research project at Virginia Tech to enhance DEW capability and to make it available to EPRI members. EPRI requested that a company be established to support DEW. A Virginia Tech research team led by Dr. Robert Broadwater formed EDD in 1995, providing a software solution licensed by EPRI that could deliver on order of a million dollar savings to a medium-sized utility company.

Early adopters of DEW, such as Ameren, Detroit Edison, Orange & Rockland, among others, have helped us focus the software model to provide real world solutions to typical problems encountered by the industry. By working directly with the utility companies to understand their biggest problems, we have been able to develop modeling applications to address their needs.

DEW now runs models containing over three million nodes and over three thousand independent loops. It is used for optimizing capacitor placements, phase balancing, load management, isolating failed components, minimizing outaged areas, and integrating real time controls with smart grid installations.

We continue to develop new applications to address our customers' needs. Along with our standard applications, we offer customized application development and consulting services.