OpenMod NREL Lightning Talks

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Date	Order	Time	First Name	Last Name	Organization	Title	Abstract
9/18/19	1	10:15	Oleg	Lugovoy	Environmental Defense Fund	USENSYS and GENESYS: open source capacity expansion energy system optimization models for US and the World with R and energyRt	The US ENergy SYStem (USENSYS) and Global ENErgy SYStem (GENESYS) are two new open source energy modeling initiatives for US and the Globe with the focus on renewable energy and transition to zero-carbon economy. The models are based on 'energyRt' package for R which facilitates development and application of Reference System (or capacity expansion) models using a set of classes and methods in R. The optimization model is currently formulated in GAMS and GLPK/MathProg. Julia/JuMP version is planned. The USENSYS model will be uploaded on GitHub by the workshop.
9/18/19	2	10:23	Gang	He	Stony Brook University	Modeling China's Power System	The SWITCH-China Model was first developed in the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at UC Berkeley as my PhD dissertation and I continue working on using the model to study the challenges facing China's clean power transition: soaring variable renewable energy penetration and curtailment; pressing air pollution, water stress, climate change, and human health challenges by coal consumption. Through the modeling efforts, I'm very familiar with the data availability, accessibility, and credibility of China's power systems, and the strategies to address those data and model challenges.
9/18/19	3	10:31	David	Farnham	Carnegie Institution for Science & Department of Global Ecology	Characterization and utility of an extremely simple energy model	We discuss the motivation and use cases for a simple energy model that optimizes for a least-cost electricity system meeting hourly demand. There is significant uncertainty in future energy demand, technology costs, and government regulations. Our group has developed an open source, computationally cheap model capable of exploring a range of scenarios. The model can consider rare weather and demand events that are critical for system design by optimizing over multiple years. Our goal is to explore endogenous system dynamics and ultimately to inform policy and research and development goals.
9/18/19	4	10:39	Mihir	Desu	Strategen	reducing accessibility barriers to grid planning models/tools for stakeholders in electric infrastructure proceedings	Due to the closed nature of existing capacity expansion and production cost modeling tools in public stakeholder proceedings to vet electric infrastructure investments, stakeholders must invest significant time and resources to adequately evaluate IOU infrastructure investments. These stakeholders do not always have the resources to invest in such efforts and as a result, unnecessary infrastructure investments, which often favor traditional solutions that may not remain effective for their useful life, can be approved.
9/18/19	5	10:47	Maxwell	Brown	NREL	ReEDS 2.0	Over the past two years we've re-developed the Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS), an electricity capacity expansion model of North America. On September 1st, 2019 we will be open-sourcing the model.
9/18/19	6	10:55	David	Wogan	Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre	Asia Pacific Energy Model	The Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre (APERC) is developing an energy systems model to project supply, transformation, and demand across APEC's 21 member economies. In this talk, I will share the scope of our modeling capability, tools, status, and challenges to start broader discussion with the group.
9/18/19	7	11:03	Carleton	Coffrin	Los Alamos National Laboratory	InfrastructureModels.jl: Multi-Infrastructure Mathematical Programming in Julia	The significant penetration of distributed renewable energy resources and increasingly dynamic fuel prices present significant challenges for the design and operation of critical infrastructure systems. To help explore how optimization algorithms can address these emerging challenges this work presents a collection of Julia packages for infrastructure optimization. These packages provide a variety of tools for, reproducing state-of-the-art results, developing new problem formulations, and benchmarking novel algorithms using standardized data formats and test cases.
9/18/19	8	11:11	Andrea	Staid	Sandia National Labs	Adverse-Weather Impact Scenarios for Power System Resilience Modeling	Resilient Operations Models (ROM) move beyond standard production cost models (PCM) to simulate system behavior during a disruptive event. In order to test out the new capabilities needed to move from PCM to ROM, we have developed a number of adverse-weather event impact scenarios. The scenarios impose changing weather conditions onto a region of interest over time, and we model plausible subsequent component failures (generation and transmission), load impacts, and restoration. Here, we present several of these impact scenarios and simulation results from applications on the RTS-GMLC network.
9/18/19	9	11:19	Bernard	Knueven	Sandia National Laboratories	egret.unit_commitment	This talk will be an overview of the unit commitment capabilities in the EGRET software package for electrical grid optimization, including the modular base generator model, ancillary service stack specification, and transmission constraint handling.
9/18/19	10	11:27	Rodrigo	Henriquez-Auba	UC Berkeley	LITS.jl - An Open-Source Julia based Simulation Toolbox for Low-Inertia Power Systems	The integration of power electronics-interfaced generation from renewable energy sources poses additional challenges to the stability and transient behavior of electric power systems. In this work, we develop an open source simulation, LITS.jl, to study transient responses when there is a high penetration of converter-interfaced generation. It features multi-machine modeling capability, inverter parameter scaling to study different CIG penetration scenarios and device ratings, and a rich library of synchronous generators components (AVR, PSS, Governor, etc.)
9/18/19	11	11:35	Clayton	Barrows	NREL	Scalable Integrated Infrastructure Planning (SIIP)	Overview of the SIIP initiative to build open-source energy infrastructure modeling capabilites.
9/19/19	1	10:15	Jared	Woollacott	RTI International	The Micro-level Economic and Environmental Detail of Electricity dataset (MEEDE)	The Micro-level Economic and Environmental Detail of Electricity dataset provides unit-level environmental, engineering, and economic data on electricity. MEEDE has annual information on fuel and generation quantities; engineering configurations for generation and control equipment; estimates for capital, fixed and variable O&M, and revenue by generation and control equipment; and emissions estimates for PM, NOX, SO2, Hg, CO2, CH4, N2O, and F-gases. Updates will include a time series, adding hourly emissions and system costs, adding FERC Form-1 Data, and making it open.
9/19/19	2	10:23	Tyler	Ruggles	Carnegie Science	A method for cleaning and validation of time series data used in energy models: demonstrated using hourly electricity demand data	Energy models use time series data to constrain electricity demand and solar and wind availability. Data sets can contain missing and potentially erroneous values. We present a method for identifying erroneous data and imputing missing and erroneous values. This method is validated using multiple techniques. As a demonstration, we focus on the U.S. Energy Information Administration√¢??s (EIA) hourly electricity demand data gathered from 56 regional entities; the EIA data is available to users √¢??as is√¢?¬ù. We provide the cleaned and validated data for use in region-specific analyses.
9/19/19	3	10:31	Christina	Gosnell	Catalyst Cooperative	Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) - the quest for open and accessible energy data Public Utility Data Liberation - striving for accessible data	Catalyst Cooperative is organizing public data to help shape policies and tell stories about the ongoing transformation of the U.S. energy sector. We have been busy building an open source tool that combines information from the Energy Information Administration, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies. We√¢??ll talk through what is available through PUDL now, what we are planning to add in the next year, and an overview on how to use the tool. We√¢??ll also explore what other data sets are being used by participants.
9/19/19	4	10:39	Greg	Schivley	Carbon Impact Consulting	PowerGenome: An open-source data platform for power system models	Assembling the data needed for a power system model is time consuming, and comparing inputs across models can be even harder. Clean Air Task Force is building PowerGenome, an open-source data platform for building US power system model inputs. We use - and are contributing new data to - Catalyst Cooperative√¢??s PUDL project as our main data repository. PUDL currently provides access to clean and normalized EIA/EPA/FERC data. Once a user specifies model regions (single and/or aggregations of IPM regions) and a handful of other parameters, PowerGenome creates the inputs needed for a model run.
9/19/19	5	10:47	Gokce	Akin Olcum	Environmental Defense Fund	The U.S. state-level open-source data and modeling framework	The WiNDC provides an open source build routine for generating micro-consistent state-level SAMs based on national US data from the BEA. For energy and emissions accounting, an energy-environment sub-routine called blueNOTE ensures that the state-level input-output accounts incorporate information on physical energy demands, supplies and prices based on the SEDS Database. This allows us to study the US state economies under various environmental and energy regulations. Our first application is NYISO's proposal for additional carbon adder on NY power generators.
9/19/19	6	10:55	David	Woodruff	UC Davis	mape_maker	We are interested in creating forecast or power scenarios when the underlying forecast methodology is modeled as being more (or less) accurate than it has been. This can be used in studies that extend into the future and may need to consider the possibility that forecast technology will improve. An open-source software implementation of the methods described here is available. It is called mapemaker.
9/19/19	7	11:03	Jacqueline A.	Dowling	California Institute of Technology	Generation of a multi-decadal, hourly based wind and solar availability data set	NASA provides public access to the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications-2 (MERRA-2) version of the GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model. The reanalysis model assimilates a wide array of observational data to deliver an internally consistent historical representation of weather. We present a method to derive solar and wind capacity factors for any region on Earth from this reanalysis data. This multi-decadal time series with hourly resolution can be used to inform energy policy and investment decisions for wind and solar heavy electricity systems.
9/19/19	8	11:11	Alexander	Zolan	NREL	Design, Analysis, and Operations Toolkit: Concentrating Solar Power Central Receiver Design and Operations Optimization	The Design, Analysis, and Operations Toolkit (DAO-Tk) is a software package that allows users to explore design optimization, operations decision, and performance characterization of concentrating solar power tower plants. Users choose from a list of variables such as tower height, solar multiple, design-point irradiance, thermal storage size, etc., and specify information about the system using a list of parameters. The software can then optimize the specified variables to reduce the cost of energy produced by the system while meeting certain production requirements.
9/19/19	9	11:19	Claude	Kl√É¬∂ckl	University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna	Classified: The top secret price of wind turbines	We comment on the frequently taken for granted issue of modelling costs of renewable energy. While, todays power system models succeed in quantifying the power output of various energy sources in increasing temporal & spatial detail, converting between MWh and $ remains often a highly challenging subject for researchers. We briefly recap the state of investment cost estimates for wind turbines and summarize current challenges and possible ways to improve upon them. Furthermore, we believe that similar concerns are relevant for most energy sources, be they wind, renewable or conventional.
9/19/19	11	11:27	Joe	DeCarolis	NC State University	Tools for Energy Model and Analysis (Temoa)	Tools for Energy Model Optimization and Analysis (Temoa) is an open source energy systems optimization model. Temoa development began nearly a decade ago to address two prevailing shortcomings in the community: (1) results produced with closed models couldn't be replicated, and (2) little sensitivity and uncertainty analysis was being performed with large, complex models. This talk will briefly summarize how Temoa is working to address these challenges and introduce a new effort funded by the Sloan Foundation to create an Open Energy Outlook for the United States.

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