Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) Model Documentation: 2025
2025
Charalampos Avraam, Renewable Power Office. Geothermal Technologies Office USDOE Grid Deployment Office; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Abdelrahman Ayad, Patrick R. Brown, Vincent Carag, Yunzhi Chen, Ilya Chernyakhovskiy, Stuart Cohen, William E. Cole, Surya Chandan 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 T. Pham, Pedro Andres Sanchez Perez, Anna Schleifer, Brian Sergi, Louisa Serpe, Shashwat Sharma, Srihari Sundar, Merve Turan, Max Vanatta
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.