Extending Grid Foundation Models for Phasor-Domain Dynamic Simulation

Boyang Zhao, Yifan Zhou, Alban Puech, Tilman Bockhacker, Hendrik Hamann

Grid Foundation Models (GridFMs) are emerging as a powerful framework for learning and transferring knowledge across power grids and grid analysis tasks. This work extends GridFMs from steady-state analysis to dynamic simulation. We present DynGridFM, which uses component-wise tokenization and a structured latent operator to learn shared dynamic representations across heterogeneous grids and enable transfer to unseen systems. Pretrained on nine grids, DynGridFM is adapted to a held-out 48-machine grid, where fine-tuning on 64 trajectories achieves accuracy comparable to training from scratch on 128. On a single GPU, it achieves 924x to 1232x speedup over numerical simulators on one CPU core.