• Building Large-Scale U.S. Synthetic Electric Distribution System Models 

      Mateo Domingo, Carlos; Postigo Marcos, Fernando Emilio; Cuadra García, Fernando; Gómez San Román, Tomás; Elgindy, Tarek; Dueñas Martínez, Pablo; Hodge, Bri-Mathias; Krishnan, Venkat; Palmintier, Bryan
      Distribution utilities are facing increasing challenges to efficiently integrate distributed energy resources. The research community is providing much-needed support in developing newer algorithms and control strategies ...
    • Experiences developing large-scale synthetic U.S.-style distribution test systems 

      Palmintier, Bryan; Elgindy, Tarek; Mateo Domingo, Carlos; Postigo Marcos, Fernando Emilio; Gómez San Román, Tomás; Cuadra García, Fernando; Dueñas Martínez, Pablo
      This paper describes computational, data management, and other experiences developing large-scale, realistic-but-not-real U.S.-style distribution test systems for the Smart-DS project. These test systems cover entire ...
    • Phase selection algorithms to minimize cost and imbalance in U.S. synthetic distribution systems 

      Postigo Marcos, Fernando Emilio; Mateo Domingo, Carlos; Gómez San Román, Tomás; Cuadra García, Fernando; Dueñas Martínez, Pablo; Elgindy, Tarek; Hodge, Bri-Mathias; Palmintier, Bryan; Krishnan, Venkat
      The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) is necessitating development of new algorithms and tools for distribution system operation and planning; however, there is a lack of publicly available ...
    • Smart-DS: synthetic models for advanced, realistic testing: distribution systems and scenarios 

      Krishnan, Venkat; Palmintier, Bryan; Hodge, Bri-Mathias; Hale, Elaine T.; Elgindy, Tarek; Bugbee, Bruce; Rossol, Michael N.; Lopez, Anthony J.; Krishnamurthy, Dheepak; Vergara Ramírez, Claudio Ricardo; Mateo Domingo, Carlos; Postigo Marcos, Fernando Emilio; Cuadra García, Fernando; Gómez San Román, Tomás; Dueñas Martínez, Pablo
      The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Comillas-IIT, Spain) and GE Grid Solutions, is working on an ARPA-E GRID ...