This is an entirely synthetic power system network model that covers the geographic footprint of the Western Interconnect states (Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona New Mexico). The case is designed with a 500, 230, 138 and 69 kV transmission network to serve a load that roughly mimics the actual population of its geographic footprint. The synthetic transmission system was designed by algorithms described in [18] to be statistically similar to actual transmission system models but without modeling any actual lines.
When publishing results based on this data, please cite:
[18] J. M. Snodgrass, “Tractable Algorithms for Constructing Electric Power Network Models,” Ph.D. Thesis, The University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2021.
This is a synthetic power system model that does not represent the actual grid. It was developed as part of the
US ARPA-E GRID DATA research project and contains no CEII.
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This power system dataset is synthetic and does not represent any actual grid. It is provided by Texas A&M University researchers free for commercial or non-commercial use. We do encourage those who use these datasets to cite the appropriate papers when using the datasets. https://electricgrids.engr.tamu.edu/references/