2024 Forecasting & Markets Workshop: Tutorial: Weather Datasets for Power System Planning

Moderator: John Zack, MESO

State of the Art in Datasets
John Zack, MESO

Problems with Existing Datasets
Justin Sharp, Research Leader IV, EPRI

Evaluation and Adjustments to the ERA5
Jim Wilczak, Research Meteorologist, NOAA

CONUS404, A High-resolution Hydro-climate Dataset
Sue Haupt, Senior Scientist, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

Applying the WIND Toolkit and WTK-LED to Grid Integration
Luke Lavin, Researcher III, NREL

Historical and Forward-Looking Datasets
Cameron Bracken, Earth Scientist, PNNL

Energy Exascale Earth System Model
Robert Arthur, Staff Scientist, LLNL

Sup3rCC Dataset
Grant Buster, Data Scientist, NREL

Creating Hourly Weather Timeseries for Future Climates
David Larson, Technical Leader, Grid Ops & Planning, EPRI

Using the Data Properly – Example and Facilitated Discussion: A Case Study
Josh Novacheck, Transmission Planning Engineer, NextEra Energy Resources; Chair, ESIG System Planning Working Group