Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) Model Documentation: 2025

Technical Report · Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2025

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/3013259· OSTI ID:3013259

Avraam, Charalampos ^[1]; Ayad, Abdelrahman ^[1]; Brown, Patrick ^[1]; Carag, Vincent ^[1]; Chen, Yunzhi ^[1]; Chernyakhovskiy, Ilya ^[1]; Cohen, Stuart ^[1]; Cole, Wesley ^[1]; Dhulipala, Surya ^[1]; Duraes de Faria, Victor ^[1]; Gagnon, Pieter ^[1]; Halloran, Claire ^[1]; Hamilton, Anne ^[1]; Ho, Jonathan ^[1]; Karmakar, Akash ^[1]; Lavin, Luke ^[1]; Mai, Trieu ^[1]; Mindermann, Kennedy ^[1]; Mowers, Joseph ^[1]; Mowers, Matthew ^[1] ; Murphy, Caitlin ^[1]; Nguyen, Claire ^[1]; Obika, Kodi ^[1]; Pham, An ^[1]; Sanchez Perez, Pedro Andres ^[1]; Schleifer, Anna ^[1]; Sergi, Brian ^[1]; Serpe, Louisa ^[1]; Sharma, Shashwat ^[1]; Sundar, Srihari ^[1]; Turan, Merve ^[1]; Vanatta, Max ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States)

The Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) model is a capacity expansion and dispatch model that is primarily used for the contiguous U.S. electric power sector. The model relies on system-wide least cost optimization to estimate the type and location of future generation and transmission capacity. This document describes details of how the model is formulated, how it functions, and many of the key inputs.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Grid Deployment Office; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Geothermal Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 3013259
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-6A40-93617
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
ReEDS
capacity expansion
electricity
energy planning
long-term planning
optimization