'Announcements' Category

Thank you all who attended our USA User Group Meeting & Training. Congratulations on those that completed the trainings! Here are the photos from the events:

We continue to expand and direct our market focus on the South American power and energy markets, targeting Hydro, Generation and Transmission professionals in an ever-changing, highly advanced environment. Continuing from our successful advertising campaign via the Energia Hoje website promoting the PLEXOS Hydro model features, our new campaign will feature the existing Square Static Banner design of the class-leading Power Market Simulation Software – PLEXOS for Power Systems® portraying the Hydro capabilities of the PLEXOS model in the Portuguese language via the Brasil Energia website. Brasil Energia is the partnering site to Energia Hoje, focusing exclusively on oil, electricity and gas exploration, production, refining and logistics. Published monthly, it circulates to subscribers, newsstands and bookstores around the country.

Our focus is global with an approach towards segmenting and targeting those markets involved in power market modelling and catering custom designed product features and services to potential clients. By displaying the content of our Square Static Banner in Portuguese, we have proven to the South American market that we have the resources available to deliver the best customer service possible, tailoring a customised package to suit the needs of all Latin American professionals within the industry.

Check out the Square Static Banner via our advertising page. Visit http://energyexemplar.com/news/advertising/

The Potencia eNewsletter is a digest of the big news stories, latest projects, newest technologies and market trends in Latin American power. The electricity sector in Latin America is one of the most dynamic power markets in the world. Power demand is set to grow on the back of a rising gross domestic product and the traditional reliance on gas is being supplemented by interest in renewable potential.

Extending on its current modern marketing campaign with a direct focus on the new age of online advertising and networking platforms, targeting electricity and Hydro professionals in the ever-changing South American power and energy markets, our new flash skyscraper banner of the class-leading Power Market Simulation Software – PLEXOS for Power Systems® as advertised in the Potencia eNewsletter portrays the Hydro and Electric Forecast capabilities of the PLEXOS model in the Spanish language. Potencia is published in Spanish by Power Engineering International, targeting over 7000+ qualified industry professionals involved in consulting, planning, modelling and is scheduled to deploy on the third Thursday of every month.

We continue to direct our brand message and product features towards a targeted audience of power and market modelling professionals, and continue to promote the awareness of PLEXOS and Energy Exemplar’s branding in all power and energy markets from across the globe. By displaying the content of our flash skyscraper banner in Spanish, we have proven to the South American market that we have the resources available to deliver the best customer service possible, tailoring a customised package to suit the needs of all Latin American professionals within the industry.

Check out the new flash skyscraper banner.

Authored by Marios Vlachodimitropoulos and edited by Dr. Christos Papadopoulos, the paper discusses the inefficiencies associated with the sub-Saharan Africa power supply caused by insufficient and largely stagnated generating capacity, unreliable supply in the form of widespread power shortages and an increasing reliance on emergency power. Maintenance, problem solving solutions and the independent power supply from the SAPP and in alliance with Africa’s largest power producer has played an important role in shaping the foundation of Africa’s power market. The paper highlights the key features and capabilities of the PLEXOS model, playing an important role in helping to find the cost-effective solutions, generation capacity and transmission limits and excess supplies thus eliminating the inefficiencies.

To access the full white paper visit our publications page.

The Energy Systems project investigated the security and reliability of next-generation energy systems. LLNL partnered with Energy Exemplar and IBM to use high performance computing (HPC) resources for simulating the power grid. The collaboration has led to the development of a massively parallel implementation of Energy Exemplar’s power market simulation software that has dramatically reduced the time required for large power market studies. As a result, studies with complex, sub-hourly high-resolution simulations that previously took months to run can be completed overnight, ultimately yielding two orders of magnitude improvement in the number of scenarios that could be run per day. This preliminary work paves the way for more detailed grid models and a deeper understanding of clean energy sources for California. Even more importantly, this new ability to run large-scale sensitivity analyses on quantities of interest changed the very nature of questions that could be asked.

More information on their website found here.

We are excited by the functionality that the new generic Decision Variable class has unlocked. Modelling of multi-period time lag constraints, non-convex and discontinuous functions, or modelling that complex unit commitment rule. It’s all now possible! Combine this with multi-stage stochastic optimization, and the integrated Gas-Electric model and 6.300 is set to revolutionize power modelling once more.

Energy Exemplar would like to welcome its newest member to the Energy Exemplar Team, Dr Randell Johnson, the first Regional Director whom will be managing the New East Coast Office. Dr. Randell Johnson, P.E. has led a global career in the power and energy sectors in M&A for private equity, power and energy trading quantitative support, planning and strategy for large utilities, and was with a major international consultancy where Randell has background in electricity markets, regulatory, public policy, and power engineering. Randell has provided leadership and management for teams for: generation and transmission interconnection analysis, expansion and capacity planning, integration of renewables and public policy, and market simulation and investment valuations. He has expertise and experience in the parameterization and application of market simulation tools for advising of planning authorities, utilities, generators, equipment manufacturers, government departments, investment banks, traders, and industrial developers. Qualifications are in Quantitative Finance (MSc) (Cass Business School), Gas and Electric Utility Corporate Finance (UConn School of Business), and Electric Power Engineering (PhD, MEng) (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

From the 1st of April 2013 Energy Exemplar will be opening a new office located in the East Coast of the United States and will be managed by a newly appointed and fully qualified Regional Director. More information regarding office contact details and staff will be announced shortly.

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Our new marketing campaign has a direct focus on the South American power and energy markets, targeting Hydro and Transmission professionals in an ever-changing, highly advanced environment. Our first ever Square Static Banner design of the class-leading Power Market Simulation Software – PLEXOS for Power Systems® as advertised on the homepage of the Energia Hoje website portrays the Hydro capabilities of the PLEXOS model in the Portuguese language. Energia Hoje is the most complete coverage of the Brazilian energy industry on the Internet. Banners integrated with content, the site is broken down by editorial department and sub-departments, further optimizing the advertising investment. Energia Hoje is a website containing statistics and services about the energy sector. Its journalistic coverage also reaches subscribers through two daily transmissions of newsletters.

We continuously direct our brand message and product features towards a targeted audience of power and market modelling professionals, and continue to promote the awareness of PLEXOS and Energy Exemplar’s branding in all power and energy markets from across the globe. By displaying the content of our Square Static Banner in Portuguese, we have proven to the South American market that we have the resources available to deliver the best customer service possible, tailoring a customised package to suit the needs of all Latin American professionals within the industry.

Energy Exemplar would like to announce the release of their latest flash leader banner of its class-leading Power Market Simulation Software – PLEXOS for Power Systems® as advertised on the homepage of the Modern Power Systems website. The international monthly magazine Modern Power Systems provides in-depth independent coverage of power plant and transmission and distribution technology. Widely read throughout the world of electricity generation, it specialises in presenting key engineering and commercial developments in an authoritative but accessible style.

Our marketing approach is focused, with a strong emphasis on modern designs and techniques, directed towards a targeted audience of power and market modelling professionals and continuously promoting the awareness of PLEXOS and Energy Exemplar’s branding in all power and energy markets from across the globe.