Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS)

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1031955· OSTI ID:1031955

Short, W; Sullivan, P; Mai, T; Mowers, M; Uriarte, C; Blair, N; Heimiller, D; Martinez, A

The Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) is a deterministic optimization model of the deployment of electric power generation technologies and transmission infrastructure throughout the contiguous United States into the future. The model, developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Strategic Energy Analysis Center, is designed to analyze the critical energy issues in the electric sector, especially with respect to potential energy policies, such as clean energy and renewable energy standards or carbon restrictions. ReEDS provides a detailed treatment of electricity-generating and electrical storage technologies and specifically addresses a variety of issues related to renewable energy technologies, including accessibility and cost of transmission, regional quality of renewable resources, seasonal and diurnal generation profiles, variability of wind and solar power, and the influence of variability on the reliability of the electrical grid. ReEDS addresses these issues through a highly discretized regional structure, explicit statistical treatment of the variability in wind and solar output over time, and consideration of ancillary services' requirements and costs.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1031955
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-6A20-46534
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
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CARBON
ELECTRIC POWER
ELECTRICITY
ENERGY ANALYSIS
ENERGY MODEL
ENERGY SYSTEMS MODELING
Energy Analysis
OPTIMIZATION
POTENTIAL ENERGY
RELIABILITY
RENEWABLE ENERGY
SOLAR
STORAGE
WIND