This page contains a taxonomy of 24 prototypical radial distribution feeder models, as well as the report describing their design, constructed under funding from the Department of Energy's Modern Grid Initiative. This taxonomy of prototypical feeders was developed in order to give researchers in academia as well as industry access to a set of detailed distribution feeder models that could be used to study and evaluate smart grid technologies on a national level. These feeders are representative of those found in the Continental United States and are designed to work with GridLAB-D version 2.0 and higher.
Modern Grid Initiative Distribution Taxonomy Final Report (PDF 2989KB)
Feeder
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kV
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kVA
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Description
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R1-12.47-1 | 12.5 | 7152 | Moderate suburban and rural |
R1-12.47-2 | 12.47 | 2836 | Moderate suburban and light rural |
R1-12.47-3 | 12.47 | 1362 | Small urban center |
R1-12.47-4 | 12.47 | 5334 | Heavy suburban |
R1-25.00-1 | 24.9 | 2105 | Light rural |
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R2-12.47-1 | 12.47 | 6046 | Light urban |
R2-12.47-2 | 12.47 | 6098 | Moderate suburban |
R2-12.47-3 | 12.47 | 1411 | Light suburban |
R2-25.00-1 | 24.9 | 17021 | Moderate urban |
R2-35.00-1 | 34.5 | 8893 | Light rural |
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R3-12.47-1 | 12.47 | 8417 | Heavy urban |
R3-12.47-2 | 12.47 | 4322 | Moderate urban |
R3-12.47-3 | 12.47 | 7880 | Heavy suburban |
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R4-12.47-1 | 13.8 | 5530 | Heavy urban with rural spur |
R4-12.47-2 | 12.5 | 2218 | Light suburban and moderate urban |
R4-25.00-1 | 24.9 | 948 | Light rural |
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R5-12.47-1 | 13.8 | 9430 | Heavy suburban and moderate urban |
R5-12.47-2 | 12.47 | 4500 | Moderate suburban and heavy urban |
R5-12.47-3 | 13.8 | 9200 | Moderate rural |
R5-12.47-4 | 12.47 | 7700 | Moderate suburban and urban |
R5-12.47-5 | 12.47 | 8700 | Moderate suburban and light urban |
R5-25.00-1 | 22.9 | 12050 | Heavy suburban and moderate urban |
R5-35.00-1 | 34.5 | 11800 | Moderate suburban and light urban |
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GC-12.47-1 | 12.47 | 5200 | Single large commercial or industrial |
Matlab-based scripts for modifying these feeders to include representative residential loads and exemplary technologies can be found in the source code tree at: [PopulationScript]