2023 FORCE Development Status Update

Technical Report · Tue Oct 03 04:00:00 EDT 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/2279026· OSTI ID:2279026

Talbot, Paul W ^[1]; Soto Gonzalez, Gabriel Jose ^[1]; Poudel, Bikash ^[1]; Phillips, Tyler Bennett ^[1]; Griffith, Anthoney ^[2]; Epiney, Aaron S ^[1]

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1. Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
2. Utah State Univ., Logan, UT (United States)

Technical and economic analysis of integrated energy systems (IES) using software models is a complex process requiring multiple commodity market decision analysis, optimal control, process modeling, and stochastic analysis. Many assumptions used in traditional energy analysis tools do not hold in future energy markets with significant storage and variable renewable energy sources (VRE), let alone with multiple commodity markets. Capturing these intricate elements for accurate techno-economic analysis of IES led to the development of the Framework for Optimization of ResourCes and Economics (FORCE) tool suite under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Integrated Energy Systems crosscutting technology program. With the aim of a full framework release in 2025, many improvements to the FORCE tool suite were developed in fiscal year 2023 (FY23). These improvements broadly fit into three focuses for development of FORCE: capability, accessibility, and reliability. Capability refers to the ability of FORCE to accurately model the technical and economic viability of various IES. Accessibility refers to ease-of-use for new and existing IES analysts to efficiently set up, analyze, and produce results using FORCE. Reliability refers to the consistency of the software, allowing consistency to analysis regardless of erstwhile changes to the software. In addition to many smaller changes, there are three major capability improvements in FORCE in FY23. In summary, FORCE developments in FY23 have moved us close to all the capability requirements for FORCE 1.0 to be delivered in FY25. Inclusion of Bayesian optimization, resilience metrics, and levelized cost analysis expand the capability, accessibility, and reliability of FORCE.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 2279026
• Report Number(s): INL/RPT--23-74915-Rev000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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