Location of buses on wind/solar resource map

[jahanbani]

Thank you for providing a well-organized dataset. I want to use this dataset for long-term planning purposes; however, one missing data (or maybe I couldn't find it) is the location of buses on the map of wind/solar resources. Could you share this set of data as well? Thank you

[claytonpbarrows]

The bus locations are in here: https://github.com/GridMod/RTS-GMLC/blob/master/RTS_Data/SourceData/bus.csv You can merge the bus table with the gen table on "BUS ID" to get the generator bus locations. I don't have the locations for the individual wind/solar generators.

[jahanbani]

Hi Clayton, Thank you for your response. I did not mean to have the exact locations of the generators, but rather I was trying to see how much potential capacity of wind/solar is available in each region. In the cover picture (on GitHub) there are two layers of wind/solar potential resource and I was wondering if it is possible to know which buses the wind/solar potentials are closest to and how much is the maximum available potential capacity of each resource.

Thank you,

[claytonpbarrows]

Oh, I see. Unfortunately, I don't have that data. Someday, I'd like to update the wind and solar datasets to use a more complete resource potential source data (e.g. NSRDB or WindToolkit), but for now the wind and solar data are sampled from the data assembled for the WWSIS phase 2 study, so I only have the representative sites to draw from, not the complete resource data set.

[jahanbani]

Thank you, I can see the time series data for regional load, but are there any time series data for the load of each bus? If not, is there a fraction matrix that can map regional load to bus load? my goal is to have the time-series load data per bus. Thank you,

[claytonpbarrows]

You need to derive the load distribution factors based on the MW load column in the bus.csv table. You can then multiply the distribution factors by the the time series to get bus specific time series. see #54