Synthetic Power Grids From Real World Models

Research communities, vendors, and utilities need access to realistic power system models, however, there are confidentiality concerns that prevent their access to real world data. Similar concerns apply to the exchange of power system models between different organizations. This DOE-sponsored work is part of a broader effort to address these issues by creating tools for automatic generation of realistic publicly available power system models. In particular, this work presents a novel methodology for rapidly generating synthetic AC OPF power system models based on real-world topologies, power system parameters, "realism" metrics, and the desired complexity of the synthetic models. Our technique relies on recent insights into the topological statistics of real-world power systems.