- California Energy Commission (CEC) PIER-funded Project, Performed with New Power Technologies (NPT)
- Used detailed 275,000 customer SCE “Hobby” integrated T&D System simulation; GRIDfast ran entire system models in single runs of seconds/milliseconds
- Used PF WECC system model integrated with detailed on-peak and off-peak scenario models of SCE Hobby T&D system loaded onto GRIDfast software
- 58 local transmission and sub-transmission substations; 215 radial distribution circuits (voltages from 33 kV to 2.4 kV); nearly 100,000 buses; peak load of ~1,300 MW; at ~ 46,000 individual distribution transformers; 102 voltage-regulating devices (transformer taps and voltage regulators), 839 reactive power sources (capacitors), 30 embedded generation resources, some of which are also sources of reactive power, and 4,684 individually-addressable demand response resources.
- Used GRIDfast™ power system resource ranking, optimization and analysis software to identify bus-specific operational measures and network resource additions providing greatest voltage and loss benefits by meeting real (active) and reactive resource deficiencies at individual points in the system.
- Identified optimal portfolio of localize VAr device recontrols, DR, DG, and distributed storage (including PHEVs) to enhance reliability and performance of integrated project T&D system (portion of SCE T&D system).
- Confirmed that in a system with thousands of control variables and tens of thousands of potential locations for resource additions, RSIs calculated using GRIDfast™ provide a systematic, repeatable way to select from among a large number of resource addition alternatives.
- Please note that AEMPFAST now is branded “GRIDfast”, and is owned and developed by GRIDiant Corporation.
