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Title: Final Technical Report: Integrated Distribution-Transmission Analysis for Very High Penetration Solar PV

Abstract

Transmission and distribution simulations have historically been conducted separately, echoing their division in grid operations and planning while avoiding inherent computational challenges. Today, however, rapid growth in distributed energy resources (DERs)--including distributed generation from solar photovoltaics (DGPV)--requires understanding the unprecedented interactions between distribution and transmission. To capture these interactions, especially for high-penetration DGPV scenarios, this research project developed a first-of-its-kind, high performance computer (HPC) based, integrated transmission-distribution tool, the Integrated Grid Modeling System (IGMS). The tool was then used in initial explorations of system-wide operational interactions of high-penetration DGPV.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States))
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
OSTI Identifier:
1239539
Report Number(s):
NREL/TP-5D00-65550
DOE Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; 24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; integrated transmission-distribution simulation; IGMS; solar; distribution; co-simulation

Citation Formats

Palmintier, Bryan, Hale, Elaine, Hansen, Timothy M., Jones, Wesley, Biagioni, David, Baker, Kyri, Wu, Hongyu, Giraldez, Julieta, Sorensen, Harry, Lunacek, Monte, Merket, Noel, Jorgenson, Jennie, and Hodge, Bri-Mathias. Final Technical Report: Integrated Distribution-Transmission Analysis for Very High Penetration Solar PV. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.2172/1239539.
Palmintier, Bryan, Hale, Elaine, Hansen, Timothy M., Jones, Wesley, Biagioni, David, Baker, Kyri, Wu, Hongyu, Giraldez, Julieta, Sorensen, Harry, Lunacek, Monte, Merket, Noel, Jorgenson, Jennie, & Hodge, Bri-Mathias. Final Technical Report: Integrated Distribution-Transmission Analysis for Very High Penetration Solar PV. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1239539
Palmintier, Bryan, Hale, Elaine, Hansen, Timothy M., Jones, Wesley, Biagioni, David, Baker, Kyri, Wu, Hongyu, Giraldez, Julieta, Sorensen, Harry, Lunacek, Monte, Merket, Noel, Jorgenson, Jennie, and Hodge, Bri-Mathias. 2016. "Final Technical Report: Integrated Distribution-Transmission Analysis for Very High Penetration Solar PV". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1239539. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1239539.
@article{osti_1239539,
title = {Final Technical Report: Integrated Distribution-Transmission Analysis for Very High Penetration Solar PV},
author = {Palmintier, Bryan and Hale, Elaine and Hansen, Timothy M. and Jones, Wesley and Biagioni, David and Baker, Kyri and Wu, Hongyu and Giraldez, Julieta and Sorensen, Harry and Lunacek, Monte and Merket, Noel and Jorgenson, Jennie and Hodge, Bri-Mathias},
abstractNote = {Transmission and distribution simulations have historically been conducted separately, echoing their division in grid operations and planning while avoiding inherent computational challenges. Today, however, rapid growth in distributed energy resources (DERs)--including distributed generation from solar photovoltaics (DGPV)--requires understanding the unprecedented interactions between distribution and transmission. To capture these interactions, especially for high-penetration DGPV scenarios, this research project developed a first-of-its-kind, high performance computer (HPC) based, integrated transmission-distribution tool, the Integrated Grid Modeling System (IGMS). The tool was then used in initial explorations of system-wide operational interactions of high-penetration DGPV.},
doi = {10.2172/1239539},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1239539}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}