NREL Open-Source Modeling Approach Simulates Low-Inertia Power Systems

Re:NREL Open-Source Modeling Approach Simulates Low-Inertia ... by dreamcompiler on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:41PM (#27968036)

This is great work. The short-term solution to high penetration of renewables on the grid is exquisite information processing, which includes both modeling and realtime control. Getting away from "black box" proprietary modeling software is a big step forward.

The long-term solution is to move to a DC grid. Everything gets easier with DC, but changing over will take a while.

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Re:NREL Open-Source Modeling Approach Simulates Low-Inertia ... by FrumpyDonut on Monday July 26, 2021 @11:53PM (#27968427)

Unfortunately this is not as novel as the press release would have you believe. More a reinvention of a wheel in a pet language. The DOE labs in general are quite famous for this sort of thing, NREL being one of the worst recent offenders along with PNNL. It would be interesting to know how many millions of taxpayer dollars are sitting in the code graveyard that is the NREL github page.

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Re:NREL Open-Source Modeling Approach Simulates Low-Inertia ... by dreamcompiler on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:08AM (#27968865)

It would also be interesting to see how many millions of taxpayer dollars the DOE labs have funneled to Mathworks, and whether Mathworks could survive should DOE decide to investigate cheaper solutions.

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Re:NREL Open-Source Modeling Approach Simulates Low-Inertia ... by FrumpyDonut on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @11:17AM (#27973450)

Strangely Mathworks is not among the usual cast of characters for DOE software grants, though they've made a fortune just from license fees paid by the labs. The last decade or so has seen a real shift away from Matlab.

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