TY - JOUR
T1 - The IEEE Reliability Test System
T2 - A Proposed 2019 Update
AU - Barrows, Clayton
AU - Preston, Eugene
AU - Staid, Andrea
AU - Stephen, Gord
AU - Watson, Jean Paul
AU - Bloom, Aaron
AU - Ehlen, Ali
AU - Ikaheimo, Jussi
AU - Jorgenson, Jennie
AU - Krishnamurthy, Dheepak
AU - Lau, Jessica
AU - McBennett, Brendan
AU - O'Connell, Matthew
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was made possible by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Modernization Initiative, which supports the Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium. The authors would particularly like to thank Charlton Clark (Office of Energy Efficiency) and Kerry Cheung (Office of Electricity) at the DOE for their support. They would also like to acknowledge Rafael Castro (Polaris) and Hooman Ghaffarzadeh (Washington State University) for creating software-specific versions of the RTS-GMLC, Bethany Frew for her support and review, and the dozens of online collaborators who continue to contribute to and develop the RTS-GMLC model. This work was authored in part by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, the manager and operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract DE-AC36-08GO28308. The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this work, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. A portion of the research was performed using computational resources sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and located at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-NA-0003525. This paper describes objective technical results and analysis. Any subjective views or opinions that might be expressed in the paper do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Energy or the United States Government.
Funding Information:
Manuscript received August 22, 2018; revised January 8, 2019 and May 8, 2019; accepted June 16, 2019. Date of publication July 2, 2019; date of current version January 7, 2020. This work was supported by the Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative. Paper no. TPWRS-01297-2018. (Corresponding author: Clayton Barrows.) C. Barrows, A. Bloom, A. Ehlen, J. Jorgenson, D. Krishnamurthy, J. Lau, B. McBennett, M. O’Connell, and G. Stephen are with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Lakewood, CO 80401 USA (e-mail: clayton.barrows@nrel.gov; aaron.bloom@nrel.gov; ali.ehlen@gmail.com; jennie.jorgenson@nrel.gov; dheepak.krishnamurthy@nrel.gov; jessica.lau@ nrel.gov; brendan.mcbennett@colorado.edu; matthew.oconnell@nrel.gov; Gord.Stephen@nrel.gov).
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PY - 2020/1
Y1 - 2020/1
N2 - The evolving nature of electricity production, transmission, and consumption necessitates an update to the IEEE's Reliability Test System (RTS), which was last modernized in 1996. The update presented here introduces a generation mix more representative of modern power systems, with the removal of several nuclear and oil-generating units and the addition of natural gas, wind, solar photovoltaics, concentrating solar power, and energy storage. The update includes assigning the test system a geographic location in the southwestern United States to enable the integration of spatio-temporally consistent wind, solar, and load data with forecasts. Additional updates include common RTS transmission modifications in published literature, definitions for reserve product requirements, and market simulation descriptions to enable benchmarking of multi-period power system scheduling problems. The final section presents example results from a production cost modeling simulation on the updated RTS system data.
AB - The evolving nature of electricity production, transmission, and consumption necessitates an update to the IEEE's Reliability Test System (RTS), which was last modernized in 1996. The update presented here introduces a generation mix more representative of modern power systems, with the removal of several nuclear and oil-generating units and the addition of natural gas, wind, solar photovoltaics, concentrating solar power, and energy storage. The update includes assigning the test system a geographic location in the southwestern United States to enable the integration of spatio-temporally consistent wind, solar, and load data with forecasts. Additional updates include common RTS transmission modifications in published literature, definitions for reserve product requirements, and market simulation descriptions to enable benchmarking of multi-period power system scheduling problems. The final section presents example results from a production cost modeling simulation on the updated RTS system data.
KW - benchmarking
KW - exact reliability indices
KW - Power system economics
KW - power system modeling
KW - power system operations
KW - power system planning
KW - power system reliability
KW - production cost modeling
KW - reliability test system
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078527042&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TPWRS.2019.2925557
DO - 10.1109/TPWRS.2019.2925557
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85078527042
VL - 35
SP - 119
EP - 127
JO - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
JF - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
SN - 0885-8950
IS - 1
M1 - 8753693
ER -