Energy Exemplar are sponsoring the European Autumn Gas Conference (EAGC) and the 2014 programme has now been released containing essential information for all those looking to adapt and overcome the latest commercial, geopolitical and macro-environmental challenges of working in the region.

Our presence on the programme includes hosting a champagne round-table debate on day one of the conference at 16:15 on The Potential Role of Gas in the New European Power Sector Environment, hosted by Dr Christos Papadopoulos, Regional Director Europe.

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As a guest of Energy Exemplar, you are entitled to a 15% discount* off the delegate registration fee*. To confirm your participation at the special rate:

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Energy Forecast is a niche business-to-business publication that is South Africa’s pre-eminent energy publication, giving its readers the opportunity to easily deliver products or services to its focused market. With all forms of energy now crucial to the future economic, political and social futures of every country in the world, especially the Africa continent, Energy Forecast provides a comprehensive coverage of exploration, development and innovation every quarter. While attention is given to traditional carbon fuels and nuclear power, the publication provides plenty of news about alternative sources of energy being developed with ingenuity around the African continent, together with emphasis on water and climate change.

The new whitepaper published by Energy Exemplar’s leading Consultant for Africa, Mr Jarrad Wright, titled ‘Buffering the Demand Shocks – Integrated Gas Electric Optimisation Considering Gas Storage’ will be published live on the Energy Forecast Africa website for the month of October and distributed to a database of over 10,000 leading experts in power generation, transmission, innovation and energy forecast. The paper provides an in-depth analysis of a representative gas-electric system in the short term and medium-term using a dataset developed in the global-leading Energy Market Simulation Software PLEXOS® Integrated Energy Model (“PLEXOS”).

Energy Exemplar’s focus is global, pro-active but also customised, segmenting the market to deliver the customised features of PLEXOS® to suit the needs of specific target regions. Energy Exemplar continues to strengthen its branding across the African power and energy markets, targeting experts in the fields of Gas Modelling and Electric Price Forecasting. Extending from the Gas Electric Optimization promotional paper, the month of September will feature one of Energy Exemplar’s newest and latest online flash Leaderboard banners on energyforecastonline.co.za and the Energy Forecast E-newsletter, promoting the key innovative developments and customised services offered by Energy Exemplar & PLEXOS®. Featured keywords associated with PLEXOS will include; Trusted Worldwide, Market leader, Integrated Gas-electric, Optimisation, Consulting, Customised Training, Datasets and Implementation.

Visit our advertising page to view the latest banner designs and download the full whitepaper.

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Energy Exemplar is proud to announce the publication of their latest white paper titled ‘Portfolio Optimization Using PLEXOS® Integrated Energy Model’ which will be advertised live on the Power Engineering International website from the 1st September to the 30th November 2014.

Authored by Dr Tao Guo, Regional Director for US West Coast, the paper discusses the four activities of Portfolio Optimization including; Operation, Generating Asset Evaluation, Budgeting and Long-term Capacity Expansion and how the PLEXOS® Integrated Energy Model can solve Portfolio Optimization problems using the Security Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC), Economic Dispatch (ED) algorithm and the Mixed Integer Programming (MIP).

The expert team at PEi will be designing a HTML email and electronic newsletter campaign, promoting the publication and release of the Portfolio Optimization paper, distributed to over 10,000 industry professionals. PEi will also provide social media support of the white paper in all PEi websites.

With worldwide circulation, Power Engineering International (PEi) is the leading magazine for the global electric power generation and transmission industry. PEi provides articles on new technologies and installations as well as market reports, news, commentary and analysis. PEi also produces a quarterly supplement called Middle East Energy, specially targeted at this important electricity market as well as a Spanish language supplement for South America’s power industry, Potencia.

Extending from the whitepaper promotion on Portfolio Optimization, for the month of October, PEi will host an Energy Exemplar customised leader board banner of the latest applications and features in the PLEXOS model incorporating keywords such as Gas System Planning, Market Analysis, Reliability Analysis, Risk Management, Transmission, Capacity Expansion Planning and much more…

Our approach is modernised, direct, targeted and focused on specific power and energy segments across the globe. The continuous promotion and distribution of the communication content of the latest enhancements, features and applications in the PLEXOS Electric & Gas Market Simulation via various targeted channels continues to deliver the results required and meets the expectations and attitudes of consumers in energy market modelling.

To download the white paper visit http://www.powerengineeringint.com/index.html

In the United States from Washington DC, The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners in Association with the Eastern Interconnection States’ Planning Council commissioned in April 2014 an international tender titled “Study – Co-Optimization of Transmission with Other Resources – Demonstration”

In the tender, it stated:

The Eastern Interconnection States’ Planning Council (EISPC) represents the 39 states, the District of Columbia, the City of New Orleans and 8 Canadian Provinces located within the Eastern Interconnection electric transmission grid. This is the first time in the nation’s history that these entities will be working together, supported by a funding opportunity from the United States Department of Energy, to evaluate transmission development options throughout the Eastern Interconnection.

We are proud to say that PLEXOS has been selected for this work. Over the years, PLEXOS has proven to have the most advanced capabilities over and above any other product in the world.

This is a significant achievement because The Eastern Interconnect makes up for 68% of the US market again highlighting the ability of PLEXOS to replicate in great detail any system of any size anywhere in the world.

PLEXOS® is currently being used for IRP filings in many state IRP processes for the states of Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky and soon Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Energy Exemplar provides customer support to many utilities who conduct Integrated Resource Plans for local regulators. Energy Exemplar lead the Wartsila IRP study of integration of flexible units in Integrated Resource Planning. PLEXOS is used in Missouri by regulatory staff and Energy Exemplar runs LTPP cases for CAISO and public review by California regulator. PLEXOS was recently used to derive capacity demand curves in ISO-NE capacity market for an Attorney General and FERC testimony was filed based on PLEXOS production cost, reliability, and capacity expansion tools. PLEXOS has also been used in many states by consultants in regulatory process.

Currently Energy Exemplar is advising 39 US state jurisdictions and 8 Canadian provinces demonstrating PLEXOS capacity planning and production cost software features as funded by the Department of Energy through NARUC as led by the Eastern Interconnect States Planning Council (EISPC).

PLEXOS is the leading energy market modelling software of choice so stay tuned to Energy Exemplar upcoming events and announcements by signing up to our mailing list in the footer of our website or by following us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter

We are proud to announce the release of our new Philippines Dataset. Based on publically sourced data, the Philippines dataset is developed in-house at Energy Exemplar. It incorporates the bid based spot market regions of Visayas and Luzon giving the user an excellent foundation for both short term forecasting and long term capacity expansion planning. To find out more please contact our Regional Manager for Asia-Pacific Mr Milorad Zecevic.

Electra is sponsored by the Association of CIGRE, the Council on Large Electric Systems. The association was founded in 1921 and is the number 1 international non-profit Association for promoting collaboration with experts from all around the world by sharing knowledge and joining forces to improve electric power systems of today and tomorrow.

Electra’s 2014 October/November issue will feature a Full Page Inside Front Cover advert of our best-in-class Gas and Electric Market Simulation software, PLEXOS® Integrated Energy Model. The advert design promotes the models capabilities and applications, market demands, prices and global users with insights into the Gas-Electric Co-optimization and Portfolio Optimization features. This campaign will extend into the December 2014 and January 2015 issue, featuring the same advert on the inside back cover.

Energy Exemplar’s focus is direct and pro-active, continuing to strengthen its branding across all power and energy markets around the globe, targeting experts in the fields of electric Price Forecasting, Power & Gas Production, Transmission and Storage, Capacity Expansion Planning, Portfolio Optimisation and much more.

Visit our advertising page and checkout some of our latest advertising designs of PLEXOS®.

For well over a decade,Electric Energy Online has worked to become the leading provider of the latest information, knowledge, and understanding of the electric industry focusing on transmission and distribution that spans the globe. Each issue both electronic and hard copy comprises regular features that are developed and/or selected internally by expert editorial staff. Where features involve specific organizations, the selections are usually made by editors and are based on several factors.

For the month of October, the Electric Energy Online website will feature an automated flash sponsorship banner of the best-in-class Gas and Electric Market Simulation software, PLEXOS® Integrated Energy Model. The advert design promotes the models capabilities, applications and market demands, with keywords including, Market Analysis, Portfolio Optimization, Electric Price Forecasting, Reliability Analysis, Customisation, Gas System Planning, ERCOT & WECC Datasets, Renewable Generation Integration, Transmission Analysis & Integrated Gas-electric . The same banner will also be promoted in the EET&D electronic newsletter, distributed to over 59,000 electric energy professionals.

Energy Exemplar’s focus is direct and pro-active, continuing to strengthen its branding across all power and energy markets around the globe, targeting experts in the fields of electric Price Forecasting, Power & Gas Production, Transmission and Storage, Capacity Expansion Planning, Portfolio Optimisation and much more.

Check out the live banner via the Electric Energy Online website and or visit our advertising page

Energy Exemplar is proud to announce the release of the SAPP Dataset v1.0. The Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) PLEXOS® Integrated Energy Model (“PLEXOS”) Dataset has been developed with country level granularity to allow the user to assess a range of issues as they relate to Southern African energy markets. The Dataset is based on public domain information and generally accepted industry practice. The Dataset includes all Southern African nations (Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). Users of the Dataset could include inter alia regional utilities, regulators, IPPs, ISMOs, TransCos, GenCos, Consultants and universities or research institutions.
In summary, the Dataset contains the following:

• One node per country with associated demand and demand profiles with seasonality and associated annual energy from 2010 to 2025
• Transmission lines (existing and planned) including maximum/minimum flows, resistance/reactance and existing SAPP interconnector flows
• Country specific fuel prices (up to 2014) with emisssion intensities
• Existing major generators connected to the national power systems of each country inclusive of major technical characteristics such as number of units, maximum capacity, heat rates, variable operations & maintenance costs, firm annual energy constraints (for hydro generators), typical wind and solar profiles (with annual energy yields), minimum stable factors, maximum ramp-up and ramp-down rates, minimum up/down time, Forced Outage Rates (FORs), Unforced Outage Rates (UFOR), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), pump load and pump efficiency (for pumped storage units) and date of commissioning (selected plants).

For more information please contact us

The Caribbean dataset is founded from data from the public domain which are all referenced. Each dataset comes pre-loaded into PLEXOS for the particular Caribbean Island purchased. Packages of multiple Islands are available including, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St Kitts, St Lucia & St Vincent and Grenadines. Each dataset includes, A) Dataset pre-loaded into PLEXOS, B) Relevant CSV files & C) List of References. General Dataset Properties included are: A) Generators (Name, Fuel Type, Registered Maximum Capacity). Generators are provided with common empirical operational attributes (e.g. Average Heat Rates, Ramp Up/Down Rate, Min Stable Level, Forced Outage Rate, Maintenance Rates, Mean time to Repair, Variable Operating & Maintenance Costs (VOM)) based on the generator characteristics using trusted resources & reports. B) Fuels (Price for Coal, Gas, Oil Monthly and Daily). Historical and 40-year fuel price forecasts are pre-loaded into PLEXOS. C) Ancillary Services Regulation (Up & Down) and Spinning (Up & Down) reserves included for all Caribbean Islands. D) Demand (Load Zone at hourly resolution) Historical and 40-year Load Forecast at hourly granularity. E) Sub-Hourly Forecasts – Sub-Hourly Loads, Sub-Hourly wind and solar profiles available for all the Caribbean Islands. F) Stochastics – Stochastic variables defined for loads, solar & wind profiles and fuel prices useful for Risk Analysis studies. G) Capacity Expansion – Expansion candidates have been included for all the Caribbean islands to perform Long-term planning studies.

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We would like to invite you to subscribe to our company YouTube channel where you will gain free access to a variety of customised videos relating to PLEXOS® including tutorials, short demos, conference presentations and much more. Visit our YouTube Channel and subscribe today.

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Time to get downloading! The latest version of PLEXOS 6 (Version 6.4) is now available in the Client Area of our web site. This is a major update that expands the simulator’s functionality in the areas of smart grid, value-based reliability and Monte Carlo reliability, natural gas modelling and stochastic optimization for hydro. Full details are in the release notes here.

We are now preparing to release Version 7.1 which aligns the simulation feature set to 6.4 but with all the great new 7 interface features. Look out for this in the next week or two.

PLEXOS is the leading energy market modelling software of choice so stay tuned to Energy Exemplar upcoming events and announcements by signing up to our mailing list in the footer of our website or by following us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter

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For well over a decade,Electric Energy Online has worked to become the leading provider of the latest information, knowledge, and understanding of the electric industry focusing on transmission and distribution that spans the globe. For the month of November, the Electric Energy Online website will promote the published paper by Energy Exemplar’s Regional Director for West Coast, Dr Tao Guo, titled ‘Renewable Generation Integration Study by PLEXOS’. Energy Exemplar performs a few renewable generation integration studies using the 3-stage DA-HA-RT sequential simulation approach to mimic the real world power system operation. The solutions from the sub-hourly RT simulation include the over-generation, un-served energy, and reserve shortfalls. Usually the non-zero values of these indices indicate the system is not ready for the renewable generation or has inadequate ramp capacity. In addition, the 3-stage Da-HA-RT sequential simulation approach can quantify the effectiveness of the system operation procedure evolution, new products and more.

To download the paper visit the Electric Energy Online website or visit our advertising page

Our regional director Dr. Randell Johnson has been invited to the ARP-E Advanced Bulk Power System Optimization Technologies Workshop to discuss advances in large scale optimizations and simulations of big grids. Energy Exemplar have developed commercial datasets for major USA interconnects for gas and electric markets in the integrated energy model PLEXOS(R). PLEXOS(R) is scalable to ultra large systems and used in many high performance computing environments. To find out more, please contact us.

Megawatt Daily provides detailed coverage of power prices in major US and Canadian electricity markets, up-to-date information about solicitations and supply deals, and information about complex state and federal power regulations. In conjunction, Platts Gas Daily provides detailed coverage of natural gas spot prices at interstate pipeline and pooling points in the major US markets. News and market commentary found in Gas Daily is used by major players in natural gas to understand legislation and the regulatory environment as well as market movements and trends impacting the price of natural gas.

Energy Exemplar is pleased to announce the release of their latest ¼ page advert design of the best in class Electric & Gas Market Simulation Software, PLEXOS® Integrated Energy Model as advertised in the Platts Megawatt Daily & Gas Daily e-Newsletter reports. The Megawatt Daily adverts will be featured in the November 11th, 12th & 13th daily editions and the Gas Daily adverts will be featured in the November 18th, 19th & 20th daily editions.

The adverts have been designed with a hyperlinked coded tracking system directed to the Energy Exemplar homepage to provide high optimised click-through rates in order to increase rankings on search engines and drive a positive flow of traffic and visits from one of the world’s leading global energy provider sites. Check out our new ¼ page advert designs via our advertising page

PLEXOS is the leading energy market modelling software of choice so stay tuned to Energy Exemplar upcoming events and announcements by signing up to our mailing list in the footer of our website or by following us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter

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PLEXOS 6.400 R02 is now available for download. Please see the Revision Notes for details. It is recommended that you carefully review the Revision Notes, to determine whether you may be affected by any of the issues addressed or can benefit from newly added features. If so, we recommend updating to this latest release. For more information please click here.

The Energy Users Association of Australia (EUAA) in partnership with Energy Exemplar has launched its first Australian NEM Report, a weekly electricity pricing report. The NEM Report will appear weekly on the EUAA website, looking back over the past week, outlining the moving spot price by state with related commentary. The EUAA is committed to providing a high level of multi-channel support to energy users. This collaboration with the EUAA will deliver the added benefits and support needed for all energy users through the provision of excellent service, comprehensive information and relentless advocacy.

We encourage you to take advantage of this free weekly report by visiting the EUAA website for further information.

Speaker: Dr Randell Johnson, Regional Director for East Coast USA
Date: 2nd December 2014
Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Many trends have emerged over the past decade of competitive markets, lower cost renewables, energy storage technologies, demand response and energy efficiency, renewable portfolio standards, shale gas finds and developments, de-carbonization, coal retirements, distributed networks, smart grid technologies and various market and regulatory reforms. This Seminar will focus on a fundamentals optimization based framework for forecasting futures with mixtures of these trends as well as discuss further reforms that may be necessary to facilitate developing domestic energy policy.

For more information please contact us.

PLEXOS is the leading energy market modelling software of choice so stay tuned to Energy Exemplar upcoming events and announcements by signing up to our mailing list in the footer of our website or by following us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter

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PLEXOS 7.100 R01 is now available for download. Please see the Revision Notes for details. It is recommended that you carefully review the Revision Notes, to determine whether you may be affected by any of the issues addressed or can benefit from newly added features. If so, we recommend updating to this latest release. For more information please click here.