Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) Model Documentation: 2025

Charalampos Avraam; Abdelrahman Ayad; Patrick Brown; Vincent Carag; Yunzhi Chen; Ilya Chernyakhovskiy; Stuart Cohen; Wesley Cole; Surya Dhulipala; Victor Duraes de Faria; Pieter Gagnon; Claire Halloran; Anne Hamilton; Jonathan Ho; Akash Karmakar; Luke Lavin; Trieu Mai; Kennedy Mindermann; Joseph Mowers; Matthew Mowers; Caitlin Murphy; Claire Nguyen; Kodi Obika; An Pham; Pedro Andres Sanchez Perez; Anna Schleifer; Brian Sergi; Louisa Serpe; Shashwat Sharma; Srihari Sundar; Merve Turan; Max Vanatta

doi:10.2172/3013259

Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) Model Documentation: 2025

Caitlin Murphy, Claire Nguyen, Kodi Obika, An Pham, Pedro Andres Sanchez Perez, Anna Schleifer, Brian Sergi, Louisa Serpe, Shashwat Sharma, Srihari Sundar, Merve Turan, Max Vanatta

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Abstract

The Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) model is a capacity expansion and dispatch model that is primarily used for the contiguous U.S. electric power sector. The model relies on system-wide least cost optimization to estimate the type and location of future generation and transmission capacity. This document describes details of how the model is formulated, how it functions, and many of the key inputs.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	160
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/3013259
State	Published - 2025

NLR Publication Number

NREL/TP-6A40-93617

Keywords

capacity expansion
electricity
energy planning
long-term planning
optimization
ReEDS

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