Scalability of the Vector Quantization Approach for Fast QSTS Simulation

Quasi -static time -series (QSTS) provides the necessary simulation fidelity on the impact that new energy resources would have on a specific distribution system feeder. However, this simulation can often take 10-120 hours for a single study, on traditional computers. The vector quantization approach proposed in [1] demonstrated very attractive computational time reduction for feeders with li mited number of input time -series profiles and few distribution system voltage control elements. In this work, we expend on this algorithm and address this issue to model feeders of any complexity while maintaining a high computational time reduction. We demonstrate a 98.7% reduction on a real distribution system feeder with 2969 -bus, 3 load/PV profiles, and 8 voltage regulating elements.