Time Series Lab - Advanced Renewable Modeling
Generation of synthetic scenarios for variable renewable sources with high temporal resolution and statistical realism.
About Time Series Lab
The Time Series Lab, also known as TSL, is a renewable modeling tool that generates synthetic future generation scenarios for variable and intermittent renewable energy (VRE) sources. Our energy system models use TSL to enhance the representation of these sources, creating detailed hourly-based scenarios.
Synthetic Renewable History
TSL creates a synthetic hourly history by processing available information from global reanalysis databases.
Identification of Ideal Project Locations
TSL offers a tool to identify the best locations for deploying generic wind and solar power plant projects.
Renewable Scenarios
TSL generates future VRE scenarios that are temporally and spatially correlated with hydrological inflows.
Renewable Scenario Generation
To estimate the statistical model that generates synthetic scenarios, TSL requires historical VRE generation data, which is often difficult to obtain. The user can input real historical data or create an hourly history based on reanalysis data of wind speed and solar irradiation.
TSL represents the joint probability distribution of all intermittent renewable and hydro resources, for both existing and future plants.
Common TSL Applications
Renewable Integration Analysis
Renewable Energy Project Evaluation
Production Cost Simulation Studies
Expansion Planning Activities
A Powerful Georeferenced Tool
TSL is included as an additional tool in SDDP, OptGen, and NCP licenses
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