In 2011, CIGRE B4 study committee initiated several Working Groups (WG) to study the potential future introduction of dc grid. In order to organize the discussions among the groups it was decided to develop a VSC based DC Grid test system with ac and dc systems with all input data.

The Development Coordination Group (DCG), group of companies leading the development of EMTP^® decided unanimously at the beginning of 2011 to mandate POWERSYS to commercialize EMTP^®. The role of POWERSYS is triple: to sell the software worldwide, to organize user group activities, to take charge of the maintenance