IEEE PES Large Electronic Load Modeling Task Force

Emerging large loads have grown exponentially in the last few years, and forecasts predict that data center power consumption could increase from 4% of all U.S. electricity usage in 2023 up to 12% by 2028.
The growth of data centers has not yet resulted in development of verified generic load models capable of representing realistic dynamics, or a clear understanding of the dynamic performance of the different kinds of large electronic loads such as cryptocurrency, AI and storage data centers. As a result of not being able to represent realistic dynamics in stability assessments, a fault in the Northern Virginia region caused an unexpected load disconnection of 1500 MW of data center load in 2024 and 1800 MW in 2025.
This taskforce has two key objectives. The first is to serve as a platform that collects and compares existing modeling approaches for large electronic load models. The second is to serve as a platform to discuss and share current best practices for studying power system stability with the integration of electronic loads. The proposed taskforce will disseminate its work as a technical report (Large electronic load modeling and analysis).

Chair - Hasala Dharmawardena
Vice Chair- TBD
Secretary- TBD

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