• A review of power distribution test feeders in the United States and the need for synthetic representative networks 

      Postigo Marcos, Fernando Emilio; Mateo Domingo, Carlos; Gómez San Román, Tomás; Palmintier, Bryan; Hodge, Bri-Mathias; Krishnan, Venkat; Cuadra García, Fernando; Mather, Barry (2017-11-01)
      Under the increasing penetration of distributed energy resources and new smart network technologies, distribution utilities face new challenges and opportunities to ensure reliable operations, manage service quality, and ...
    • Building highly detailed synthetic electric grid data sets for combined transmission and distribution systems 

      Li, Hanyue; Wert, Jessica L.; Birchfield, Adam B.; Overbye, Thomas J.; Gómez San Román, Tomás; Mateo Domingo, Carlos; Postigo Marcos, Fernando Emilio; Dueñas Martínez, Pablo; Elgindy, Tarek; Palmintier, Bryan (2020-12-31)
      This paper introduces a methodology for building synthetic electric grid data sets that represent fictitious, yet realistic, combined transmission and distribution (T&D) systems. Such data sets have important applications, ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 (2020-11-01)
      Rapid increases in distributed energy resources on distribution systems are prompting research efforts to improve and evaluate electric power distribution algorithms; however, there is a shortage of realistic, large-scale, ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 (2021-01-01)
      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 ...
    • 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 (2020-09-01)
      The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) has driven a push toward new algorithms and tools for distribution system operation and planning; however, there is a lack of publicly available electrical ...
    • 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 ...
    • Validation of synthetic U.S. electric power distribution system data sets 

      Krishnan, Venkat; Bruce, Bugbee; Elgindy, Tarek; Mateo Domingo, Carlos; Dueñas Martínez, Pablo; Postigo Marcos, Fernando Emilio; Lacroix, Jean-Sebastien; Gómez San Román, Tomás; Palmintier, Bryan (2020-09-01)
      There is a strong need for synthetic yet realistic distribution system test data sets that are as diverse, large, and complex to solve as real systems. Such data sets can facilitate the development of advanced algorithms ...