| Definition | Regulation of reactiv power |
| No of environments | 36 |
| No of transitions | ~995k |
Volt-VAR control (VVC) is a key component of the advanced distribution system management system. As the power distribution systems are transitioning into the era of high distributed generation penetration, the legacy VVC technologies need to be improved to accommodate these changes and continue to provide high-quality electric power to the end-use customers.
This dataset contains a suite of Volt-VAR control (VVC) benchmarks for conducting research on sample efficient, safe, and robust RL-based VVC algorithms. It includes the IEEE 13, 123, and 8500-node test feeders wrapped as a gym-like environment along with baseline algorithm implementations to reproduce the results of the paper entitled “A reinforcement learning-based volt-VAR control dataset and testing environment”.
| Example observations | Active and reactive power injected or consumed at the substation Active and reactive power consumed by final customers On-load tap changer value States of voltage regulators Capacitor bench Cos(t) – sin(t) |
| Example actions | On-load tap changer (OLTC) change Switching states of voltage regulators and capacitor benches |
| Example reward | Number of actions on “machines”, power loss, volt signal in a given range |