v2024.8.0

What's Changed

• Fix Bokeh Report Creation
• Update hpc documentation
• Increase the number of PV supply curve bins to 40
• Move aggregate_regions.py to be second input processing script
• Fix offshore wind supply curve (POI)
• Add Excess Load Variable
• Do not apply planned outages in the winter
• Remove old representation of interseasonal hydro storage
• Techs should not be able to upgrade until after firstyear
• Change restart_runs.py to only read .lst files when looking for the last year
• Updates to the model documentation
• Remove line breaks from model documentation
• add county-level test to the GitHub runner
• Add note about how planned and unplanned outages are applied
• Update dGen documentation
• Updated the Canada import/export description
• CSP updates from documentation hackathon
• docs: Updating documentation of model linkages
• Update discussion of alternative compliance payments
• Update storage mandates and CES documentation
• Replaced "VRE module" with "RA module" in Fig 21
• Update hydropower lifetime citation
• Update hurdle rates documentation
• Add documentation for national and sub-national CO2 emission caps
• minor wording change - PVB
• Land-based Wind Updates
• Update-VRE-lifetime-table
• Overview, Acknowledgements, Introduction, and Modeling Framework Updates
• Update documentation with economic lifetime
• Update UPV section of the documentation
• Update storage documentation section
• Capacity deployment limit based on interconnection queues
• Osw cn
• Add documentation for CO2e
• Update documentation surrounding federal policies and hydrogen
• Updates to documentation from the documentation hackathon
• Allow Storage Bin Penalty to Be Switch Controlled
• Additional Documentation Updates
• Address bugs related to upgrades

Known Issues

1. USA & USA_decarb: run and produce outputs, has an error in retail_rate_calcuations.py (issue https://github.nrel.gov/ReEDS/ReEDS-2.0/issues/1495 addresses this)

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results-v2024_8_0_USA_decarb,v2024_7_0_USA_decarb.pptx
results-v2024_8_0_USA,v2024_7_0_USA.pptx

v2024.7.0

What's Changed

• Fix geothermal resource infeasibilities
• ATB 2024 Updates
• Value and value factor outputs for new technology builds
• County Fix for Supply Curves Geothermal and Offshore Wind
• Fix ReEDS_to_reV aggregation issue
• Resources update: change the '_' delimiter between {tech_class} and {region} to '|'
• Clean Air Act Section 111
• Update handling of file_version.csv for county-level runs
• R2R Overage Fix for UPV
• Address linting issues identified by Ruff
• Units fix new
• Update and Add Long Duration Batteries to Battery ATB 2024 Files
• Update osw sc
• Updating handling of prescribed PVB builds
• Add model documentation to the GitHub pages documentation
• Update offshore wind state mandates 2024
• Update Geothermal ATB 2024
• Undoes Commits Somehow Pushed Directly to Main

Known Issues

1. USA & USA_decarb: run and produce outputs, has an error in retail_rate_calcuations.py
2. Pacific_water: fails
3. Pacific_hourly: fails in d_solve_iterate

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results-v2024_7_0_USA,v2024_6_0_USA.pptx
results-v2024_7_0_USA_decarb,v2024_6_0_USA_decarb.pptx

v2024.6.0

What's Changed

• Update process_regions_and_load function in r2p
• Change net firm import limit from MW to percent
• Land-based wind ATB 2024 Update
• Aggregate to 133 regions by default
• Scaling CO2 emission cap
• Partial ATB24 Updates
• Land-based Wind reV Supply Curve 2024 Update
• Add RI storage mandate
• Combine regional ReEDS runs into national run
• Fix for EIC runs
• Add hurdle rate regions and time-dependent costs
• UPV reV Supply Curve 2024 Update
• Updates the ReEDS GitHub pages documentation
• Update the sources documentation
• Geothermal supply curve update 2024
• fixing division by zero error in EVMC
• Change format for h5 files in copy_files.py
• 2024 offshore wind supply curve update
• Vermont Renewable Energy Standard Update
• Temperature-dependent forced outage rates (preliminary data)
• Add long duration battery storage (without inter-day linkage)
• Turn off retail adder for H2 and DAC
• ci: Improving GitHub workflow to include two test scenarios and faster run times
• ci(fix): Update cache.yaml
• ci(fix): Update python-app.yaml so it fails if not ReEDS output produced
• Added filter to exclude H2-CT from fuel costs calculation
• Change all line endings to LF automatically
• Make system cost error more noticeable; fix non-valgen generation
• Update cases_test to fix pvb scenario

Known Issues

1. Western_agg & Pacific_reduced_resource scenarios (in cases_test.csv): fail in d_solve_iterate
2. ERCOT_county scenario (in cases_test.csv): fails in copy_files
3. Pacific_water scenario (in cases_test.csv): fails
4. Pacific_hourly scenario (in cases_test.csv): fails in d_solve_iterate

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results-v2024_6_0_USA,v2024_5_0_USA.pptx
results-v2024_6_0_USA_decarb,v2024_5_0_USA_decarb.pptx

v2024.3.0

Summary of changes

• Enable sub-model-BA runs
• Apply the PTC to PV-only generation from PV-battery systems and allow the PTC-ITC combo on PV-battery systems
• Identify representative periods using transgrp instead of transreg resolution by default
• Add small weighting to stress period hours
• Update land use analysis postprocessing script
• Move the Initial ReEDS data import in calc_financial_inputs.py to copy_files.py
• Update NERC regions and PRMs; add optional constraint to restrict firm capacity trades
• Account for renewable and clean energy credit exports in RPS/CES constraints
• Adjust fuelcostprep.py to read from inputs_case folder
• Valcap removals for next years
• Change CES RecStyle for Rhode Island
• PVB variable generalization
• H2 fuel price bug fix
• Adjust writedrshift.py to read from inputs_case
• Condense compare_cases.py and compare_casegroup.py into one script; add some more plots
• update(r2x_test): Adding new file map from R2X to the integration testing.
• Tightening model formulation

Known Issues

1. Pacific_water: Currently fails
2. Pacific_pvb: Currently fails in LDC_prep
3. Western_agg: runs and has outputs but has errors in transmission_maps and hourly_repperiods
4. NYISO_H2: Currently fails in writedrshift

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diff-v2024.2.0_Ref.pptx
diff-v2024.2.0_USA_decarb.pptx

v2024.2.0

What's Changed

• Allow inter-day usage of storage across stress periods
• Update inflation and output dollar year
• Change ces_fraction from wide to long format
• Update cap_hyd_szn_adj Parameter to Ingest Month-Indexed Data
• Change default discount rate in bokeh from 1.7% to 2.0%
• Update county transmission limits
• Remove the "rb" set from GAMS
• Set operating reserve requirements by AC capacity of PV techs instead of DC capacity
• Remove hurdle rates from reported system cost; apply hurdle rates between all zones by default
• Update DE carbon cap

Known Issues

1. Pacific_water: Currently fails
2. Pacific_pvb: Currently fails in copy_files
3. Western_agg: runs and has outputs but has an error in transmission_maps that is lower priority

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diff-v2024.1.0_Ref.pptx
diff-v2024.1.0_USA_decarb.pptx

v2024.1.0

What's Changed

• evmc_shape resource capacity accreditation
• Hourlize refactoring
• Get capacity credit back for agg regions
• Alter load using load adjustment profiles and adoption rates
• GHP dGeo Linkage Formulation
• EVMC storage resource implementation
• Move startyear for new interzonal transmission from 2028 to 2032
• Track more runtime details; add PRAS flows and surplus
• reValue
• Reduce battery storage vintage
• Remove invalid (p,i) combinations and stress periods from PRODUCE
• Reproducibly select fresh stress periods each solve year
• Fixing error in natural gas demand and associated alphas
• Update cf_hyd Parameter to Ingest Month-Indexed Data
• Update natural gas CRF penalties to reflect change to 30-year cost recovery period
• update Diablo plant retirement
• Changing threads number from 4 to 8
• Rounding parameters
• Update Michigan state policies to reflect Bill 271
• Add GitHub workflow to run R2X test on pull request
• Add "debug" mode
• Add switch to remove CCS techs from RecTech set
• Update MI RPS and CES to nominal values
• Fix B2B costs
• Remove growth penalties from reported system cost
• Hourlize doc
• Adding OEDI link for county-level data by
• Fix county capability on main

Known Issues

1. Pacific_water: Currently fails
2. Pacific_pvb: Currently fails in copy_files
3. Pacific_hourly: Currently fails
4. Western_agg: runs and has outputs but has an error in transmission_maps that is lower priority

Version 2024.0.0

What's Changed (since version used for 2023 standard scenarios)

• County-level capability
• R2r increments
• Revise reeds_bokeh.py to work with MacOS
• Fix issue with prescribed builds in NM
• Merge PRs related to the hackathon and makes changes to make ReEDS operate flexibility between Eagle & Kestrel
• Fix parts of retail rate module
• Add capital cost data to outputs for retail rate module
• Allow hydrogen to be retired endogenously
• Runfiles fix
• Switch to 30-year capital recovery period for most techs
• Allow negative threads in cplex.opt
• Fix removed closed parenthesis
• Update stress period price outputs and make bokehpivot fixes
• Fix some H2 cost bugs in bokehpivot
• Implement new reeds_to_rev method
• Allow multiple criteria for selecting stress periods
• EV managed charging load input, shape resource, and clean out old ReEDS EV load
• Fix bokehpivot Download All Files of View permission error
• Updated Documentation in README
• Change capacity credit from "szn" to "cold"/"hot" resolution
• Add runstatus.py script to print details about active HPC runs
• Fix historic load bug
• Integrate visit into bokehpivot reports
• Update the retail rate module to be compatible with the reeds2 environment
• County fixes
• Fix System Costs bokeh plot and update df_capex_init.csv
• Update assumptions from Standard Scenarios 2023
• Clean up rev_paths file
• County-level fix, ldc_prep and season peak determination speedup
• Updated cases_test.csv to include new test suite
• Add script for comparing multiple cases
• Re-enable region aggregation (bug fix)
• Fix error in marginal capacity credit reporting
• Automatic Download of Required County-Level Input Data (Improvements)
• Updating Nuclear Ban list and ReEDS Readme
• Fix coal-IGCC and coal-new showing up when banned

Known Issues

1. Western_agg test scenario (in cases_test.csv): runs and has outputs but has an error in transmission_maps that is lower priority
2. Pacific_water test scenario: run fails
3. Pacific_pvb test scenario: fails in LDC_prep