MOD-033–1: WECC and Idaho Power Experience of Steady State Model Validation

The planning cases are widely used for short and long-term planning. Model validation is essential to ensure planning cases accurately predict the system performance. NERC Standard MOD-033-1 requires Planning Coordinators to validate the planning case. Performing the model validation requires a lot of manual work that is time consuming and error prone. The goal of this paper is to present a novel approach to automate the model validation process using planning and State Estimator (SE) cases. The approach presented is tested on the Western Interconnection 22,000 bus system as well as the Planning Coordinator (PC) Idaho Power system. The approach and tools presented in this paper improves speed, accuracy and repeatability.