Test Systems / IEEE RTS-96

IEEE Reliability Test System — 1996

The expanded IEEE test system developed as RTS-96 and published in 1999, presented independently from the original RTS-79.

Research release — verification required. Care has been taken to match the published IEEE test-system descriptions. Users MUST check data, equipment connectivity, operating assumptions and results against the cited source before relying on any file. Report omissions, revisions and discrepancies to sagarwal@gri-us.com. Revisions will be reviewed, attributed and versioned. Only available native file formats are provided.

System publications

The RTS-96 report includes single-area and three-area configurations, substation and geographic views, and extended reliability and load data. Its original figures are the reference for future faithful redraws.

PowerWorld models provided by Dr. Sudhir Kumar Agarwal

Filename	Type	State
`RTS-96_28_NB_ring_v18.PWB`	PowerWorld case	Received; main-domain transfer pending
`RTS-96_28_detailed_NB_ring_1_v18.PWB`	PowerWorld case	Received; main-domain transfer pending
`RTS-96_28_detailed_NB_ring_3_v18.PWB`	PowerWorld case	Received; main-domain transfer pending
`RTS-96_28_detailed_NB_ring_1_v18.aux`	PowerWorld auxiliary controls	Received; main-domain transfer pending

The contributor confirms that the filenames describe the configurations. The original binary models are preserved without modification and have not been independently simulated here.

Diagrams, data and reference results

The published RTS-96 report remains the primary reference for original diagrams and numerical definitions. Additional chronological data and reliability parameters will be indexed and added as verified. See also RTS-GMLC, which is a later research model, not the original RTS-96.