Creating Realistic Synthetic Electric Grids to Promote Open Science in Power Engineering

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Before the advent of synthetic electric grids, public test cases for electric transmission grids were limited to the IEEE test cases and similar datasets. While these have served the community well, they do not match the size, complexity, or structure of today’s bulk electric grids. Industry grid models, however, are not publicly sharable because of critical energy infrastructure information (CEII) designation and similar restrictions.
To address these challenges, over the last few years, new methodologies have been developed to create synthetic (fictitious) electric grid models that better match the size, complexity, and structure of actual grids, while being free of CEII. This presentation discusses some of the latest research efforts in building synthetic grids and introduces some of the most recent public datasets available for large-scale electric grid simulation research.