Datasets for ARPA-E PERFORM Program - Midwest24K

Abstract

The ARPAE Performance-based Energy Resource Feedback, Optimization, and Risk Management (PERFORM) research program “seeks to develop innovative management systems that represent the relative delivery risk of each asset and balance the collective risk of all assets across the grid.” This page contains datasets developed by teams at Texas A&M to support this program and participating project members. The datasets here are high-quality synthetic electric grid models, built from public information and a statistical analysis of actual power systems. They are geolocated on actual U.S. geography, but they are synthetic (fictitious) transmission networks that do not contain any CEII. See the references page here for more detailed information.

The cases are provided in multiple formats, including PowerWorld binary (PWB/PWD), PowerWorld auxiliary text format, Matpower format, PSS/E raw format, and PSLF epc format. More about the data formats. Please contact Adam Birchfield (abirchfield@tamu.edu) for questions regarding these cases.

Midwest24K

This 23,643-bus network covers the geographic footprint of the combined systems of the Mid-Continent Independent System Operator (MISO) and the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) and serves 202 GW of peak load across multiple central U.S. states.

The May 6 version of the Midwest24K MISO and SPP footprint case is created to match the exact locations of generators based on EIA-860 generators and plant data and its transmission system is different from 2021 Mar. 10 version. The updated version contains 23,643 buses. This case is recreated to include accurate locations, capacities, and characteristics of all generators based on EIA-860 generator data and plant data. All generators are mapped with EIA-860 data and a column called “Custom String 1” is added to the generators data that includes “plant ID_generator number” data from EIA-860 data and can be easily mapped. In the previous version, the capacities of generators that were larger than 8 MW matched the EIA-860 data. In addition, the load and Max Mw capacity to load ratio is tuned in May 6 version, based on metrics that are achieved from actual data.