Renewable Integration
Since 2008, PLEXOS® has been used for progressively ambitious renewable integration studies
Intelligent Energy Decisions, All in One Platform
PLEXOS® is the trusted platform for energy market simulation, built to deliver precision, flexibility, and confidence at any scale.
Designed for today’s fast-moving energy landscape, PLEXOS® helps unify complex data and streamline decisions across planning horizons.
With PLEXOS® Intelligence, advanced AI accelerates modeling speed and expands capacity—so you can run more scenarios, faster.
From long-term investment strategy to real-time operations, PLEXOS® handles zonal and nodal simulations with clarity and control—down to the intra-hour.
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Investment Decisions
PLEXOS® has been used for high renewable IRPs around the world and in many states in the US
Storage Investment and Operations
PLEXOS® has long led the field in Storage optimization
Hydro and Pumped Storage Hydro
PLEXOS® is the first stop for anyone seeking to combine Hydropower with any of Wind, Solar, Battery, or other renewables.
Emissions, CCUS, Nuclear, and other technologies
PLEXOS® is a leader in studying emerging energy technologies and policy impacts on the energy market.
Unlimited flexibility
Model Your Way
Configure PLEXOS® with a limitless collection of scenarios, customized constraints, conditional variables, physical elements, simulation horizons, durations of simulation period, phases in the integration and model resolution.
This data-driven flexibility creates a dynamic solving engine: it adapts to your data producing the right balance of detail and performance while giving you ultimate scalability and ultra-fine control.
PLEXOS® is also completely transparent. If you want to see how the solution delivered the results, all equations, objective functions and constraints are open for you to review.
- Run real-world studies for greater accuracy
- Analyze hundreds of scenarios for richer insights
- Co-optimize electricity, water and gas systems
- Simulate competitive behaviors
- Calibrate your simulations to maximize accuracy versus speed
- Demonstrate auditable results
- Complete control of constraints in your modeling runs
PLEXOS® Playbooks
Prebuilt. Editable. Simulation-ready.
PLEXOS® Playbooks provide validated modeling templates with ready-to-run scenarios, detailed reports, and editable components, so teams can move faster, stay aligned, and reduce setup time. Ideal for accelerating planning cycles and compliance-driven studies.
Jump start the journey with:
- Run an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) using editable inputs and pre-built reports
- Adjust gas price forecasts quickly through intuitive scenario editing
- Evaluate European price dynamics by layering in your own trading assumptions
- Explore regional market trends in APAC with tailored models for Japan, Taiwan, and Australia
PLEXOS® Insights
Actionable dashboards. No modeling required.
PLEXOS® Insights provides web-based and API-accessible forecasts built by our in-house modeling experts, ready to plug directly into your daily decision flow. Designed for planners, traders, and regulatory teams and updated regularly, recurrently, each insight provides simulation-grade outputs and forward-looking analytics such as pricing forecasts, capacity outlooks, and market trends.
Action – ready use cases:
• Optimize your European trading strategy with daily updated power price forecasts
• Anticipate congestion risks to better prepare for monthly ERCOT auctions
• Enhance power modeling accuracy using gas price forecasts across Europe and North America
PLEXOS® Pulse
PLEXOS® Pulse delivers daily refreshed short-term market knowledge through an intuitive, AI Market Expert chat interface. Interrogate the model, explore “why,” and instantly generate bespoke analytics and visualizations—no code required. With zero setup and immediate integration, Pulse brings instant clarity to your trading decisions.
- AI-driven querying, analytics, explanations: Build your bespoke analytics and visualizations leveraging our AI agent.
- Holistic fundamental model: Fundamentally modeled from the ground up. Leveraging Energy Exemplar’s highly detailed dataset.
- Refreshed daily: Over 10 million rows cleaned, scraped, and transformed every day so you can focus on trading.
Only available in Europe
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Plan the Future of Energy with PLEXOS®
Consolidate modeling across electric power, water, and gas systems and reduce overall scenario run time.
