FIDOpower provides a framework for inter-organizational data exchange, data and model synthesis, and system performance analysis across multiple power systems tools.
California utilities, customers, consulting engineers and regulators need to exchange power system data, yet this can be cumbersome and error prone, raising barriers to effective resource integration, curbing growth of these resources, and limiting how quickly California can reach its climate change mitigation goals.
FIDOpower is an open source project used to:
- Collect data from a wide variety of sources
- Transfer model and data between tools
- Enable creation of permanently available reproducible results.
FIDOpower allows utility planners and grid researchers to move data quickly between applications. FIDOpower supports emerging user groups including DER system integrators and aggregators who use multiple tools to analyze DER grid impacts, and governments and agencies using models for oversight and planning clean energy deployments.
FIDOpower workflows include:
- Analysis for tariff design
- Loadshapes
- Long term load forecasting
- Weather and climate
- Simulation results
- Census data
- Hosting capacity
- Electrification
- Meter-address mapping
- Converters between simulation tools
FIDOpower was originated by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory operated by Stanford University. The project was contributed to LF Energy in 2024.
