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Plan Iowa Energy (PIE) Project:
Evaluating and Strengthening Iowa's Power Grid
for High Wind/Solar Penetration Levels
3 year project (2023-2026)
Funded through the Iowa Economic Development Authority
Acknowledgment: This material is based
upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the State Energy Program Award
Number DE-EE0010072.
Disclaimer: The views
expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department
of Energy or the United States Government.
Personnel:
Investigators: James
McCalley, Colin Christy, Ali Jahanbani.
Ph.D. students: Yanda Jiang,
Gustavo Cuello-Polo, Dut Ajang, Charlie Phillips, Mohamed Elnasry
Contact information: jdm@iastate.edu; 515-460-5244
Project information;
►Technical reports:
· Report
1, MISO and SPP Planning Processes
· Report
2, High-Risk Conditions and Events
· Report
3, Visions, Uncertainties, and Future
· Report 4, Inertial/frequency
stability
· Report 5, Resource/energy
adequacy
· Report 6, Enhanced resilience
modeling
· Report
6b, Second report - enhanced resilience modeling
· Report 7, Reduced network model
· Report 8, Folding horizon
simulation
· Report 9,
Inertial/frequency stability
· Report 10,
Resource/energy adequacy
· Report
12, Strategic Plans – preliminary results
►Slides from Project
Advisory Board Meetings:
· Presentation
Slides EPRC Meeting 05/20/2025
►Papers &
dissertations resulting from this work:
o Paper
on folding horizon simulation
o Paper on including
inertia/frequency constraints
o
Dissertation on model reduction
►Central project idea:
►Key Power System
Design Tool:
