Generate plans for transmission systems and analyze their capabilities for up to 50 buses. Select a system type, choose a template and configure the settings of various operations, including fault analysis, power flow simulation, PV or QV analysis, etc.
PSS®E Xplore 34.0 was available to download from the developer's website when we last checked. We cannot confirm if there is a free download of this software available. The actual developer of the free software is Siemens Industry, Inc. Power Technologies International.
You can launch this free PC program on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11 32-bit. PSS®E Xplore belongs to Education Tools. We recommend checking the downloaded files with any free antivirus. Commonly, this program's installer has the following filenames: psse33.exe and Psse34.exe etc. The software is sometimes distributed under different names, such as "PSSE Xplore". The most popular versions of the tool 34.0 and 33.0.
From the developer:
PSS®E Xplore is a free version of PSS®E Power Transmission System Planning software suite. PSS®E has features such as power flow simulation, PV/QV analysis with plot generation, fault analysis, contingency analysis, etc. Xplore version can be used for simulation up-to 50 buses.
You may want to check out more software, such as xplorer² lite, xplorer² professional or xplorer², which might be similar to PSS®E Xplore.