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The Wind Deployment System (WinDS) model is a computer model that optimizes the regional expansion of electric generation and transmission capacity in the continental United States over the next 50 years. The WinDS Web site presents an overview of this NREL-developed tool, as well as relevant data and related publications.
Site users will find background on the model, a detailed model description, and data on cost of wind transmission access.
The WinDS model employs a Geographic Information System (GIS) to develop region-specific data for input to a linear program (LP). Most of the methodology description addresses the linear program portion of the model and is simply referred to as WinDS. The documentation also calls out the GIS calculations, where it is important to distinguish calculations that are done in the GIS from the LP.
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