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Building large-scale U.S. synthetic electric distribution system models

C. Mateo, F. Postigo Marcos, F. de Cuadra, T. Gómez, T. Elgindy, P. Dueñas, B.M. Hodge, V. Krishnan, B. Palmintier

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Vol. 11, nº. 6, pp. 5301 - 5313

Summary:
Rapid increases in distributed energy resources on distribution systems are prompting research efforts to improve and evaluate electric power distribution algorithms; however, there is a shortage of realistic, large-scale, U.S.-style test systems for the evaluation of such advanced algorithms. Some available tools to build large-scale test systems are of European style, and their application to studies focused on the United States might not be desirable given very different characteristics between the European and U.S. distribution designs. Motivated by this need, this paper develops detailed algorithms to build large-scale U.S. distribution systems and incorporates them in a new Reference Network Model, RNM-US. The approach starts with information from street maps and a catalog with electric equipment that includes power lines, transformers, voltage regulators, capacitors, and switching devices. The paper presents the algorithms through an illustrative case study of the different steps that comprise the process of building a synthetic distribution grid. Finally, the paper presents a medium-and a large-scale data set covering 10 million electrical nodes and 120,000 km of power lines, demonstrating the applicability of the proposed method to build very large-scale synthetic distribution systems.


Keywords: Distribution system; synthetic system; test feeder; power utility; power flow; power system; Reference Network Model, representative system


JCR Impact Factor and WoS quartile: 8,960 - Q1 (2020); 8,600 - Q1 (2023)

DOI reference: DOI icon https://doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2020.3001495

Published on paper: November 2020.

Published on-line: June 2020.



Citation:
C. Mateo, F. Postigo Marcos, F. de Cuadra, T. Gómez, T. Elgindy, P. Dueñas, B.M. Hodge, V. Krishnan, B. Palmintier, Building large-scale U.S. synthetic electric distribution system models. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Vol. 11, nº. 6, pp. 5301 - 5313, November 2020. [Online: June 2020]


    Research topics:
  • Representative electricity networks and applications

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