Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) Model Documentation: Version 2018

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AcknowledgmentsWe gratefully acknowledge the many people whose efforts contributed to this report. The ReEDS modeling and analysis team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) was active in developing and testing the ReEDS model v.2018. We also acknowledge the vast number of current and past NREL employees on and beyond the ReEDS team who have participated in data and model development, testing, and analysis. We are especially grateful to Walter Short who first envisioned and developed the Wind Deployment System (WinDS) and ReEDS models. We thank for their comments and improvements on successive versions of this report. Finally, we are grateful to all those who helped sponsor ReEDS model development and analysis, particularly supporters from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) but also others who have funded our work over the years.

Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) Model Documentation: Version 2019

“…Those constraints were not included in the 2019 version of ReEDS, but they are anticipated to be reimplemented into the 2020 version of ReEDS. For more information on how the thermal cooling water constraints worked, see Section 4 of the 2018 version documentation (Cohen et al 2019).…”

“…Previous versions of ReEDS, including the 2018 version(Cohen et al 2019), included a representation of climate impacts. That representation was not included in the 2019 version of ReEDS, but it is anticipated to be reimplemented into the 2020 version of ReEDS.…”

Electrification Futures Study: Methodological Approaches for Assessing Long-Term Power System Impacts of End-Use Electrification

“…The primary purpose of this report is to present the methodological approaches applied to National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) capacity expansion model in order to improve its ability to reflect electrification-related impacts on power system planning. 2 Given the methodological focus of this report, it should be viewed as a complement to the main ReEDS model documentation presented by Cohen et al (2019). Section 1.2 provides an overview of the ReEDS model with particular emphasis on aspects of the 2018 final release version of the model prior to changes described in the latter sections of this report.…”

“…The ReEDS model (Cohen et al 2019;Cole et al 2018) serves as the analytic backbone of the EFS supply-side analysis. 3 ReEDS is a capacity planning and dispatch model that uses systemwide least-cost optimization to develop long-term electricity supply scenarios.…”

Compounding climate change impacts during high stress periods for a high wind and solar power system in Texas

“…As of July 2019, ERCOT has 22 and 1.8 GW of installed wind and solar, respectively (ERCOT 2019). We site this wind and solar capacity at locations of wind and solar plants deployed by the Regional Energy Deployment System (Cohen et al 2019), a capacity expansion model, for a similar wind and solar penetration scenario. Generally, our wind plants are sited in the Panhandle, Central, and Southern Texas, while our solar plants are sited in the Panhandle, Central, and Houston areas (see SI.4 for map).…”