Incremental Documentation for v.5.15

To learn more about v.5.15 assumptions, updates and enhancements, see the links below.

• Base Case v.5.15 Incremental Documentation
  • Table 4-20: Representative Wind Generation Profiles (XLSX)(3 pp, 413 K)
  • Table 4-28: Representative Solar Generation Profiles (XLSX)(2 pp, 129 K)

National Electric Energy Data System (NEEDS) v.5.15

The National Electric Energy Data System or “NEEDS” database contains the generation unit records used to construct the "model" plants that represent existing and planned/committed units in EPA modeling applications of IPM. NEEDS includes basic geographic, operating, air emissions, and other data on these generating units. NEEDS was updated for EPA’s new power sector modeling platform v.5.15 compared to v.5.13. Updates to NEEDS v.5.15 incremental to NEEDS v.5.14 is minimal.

• Download the NEEDS v.5.15 Database (XLSX)(3 pp, 3 MB)
  • NEEDS User’s Guide
  • Updates to NEEDS v.5.15 Incremental to NEEDS v.5.14 (XLSX)(1 pg, 12 K)
  • Updates to NEEDS v.5.14 incremental to NEEDS v.5.13

Results Using EPA’s Base Case v.5.15

• Detailed IPM output files (i.e., Overview, System Summary Report, .DAT, .RPE, .RPT files, Gas Report, State Level Emissions Summary): EPA Base Case for the Clean Power Plan (ZIP)(7 pp, 102 MB)
• Guide to the content of the IPM input and output files.