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How Nodal Modeling Optimizes Data Center Siting
Team Energy Exemplar: October 5, 2026
Originally published on Utility Dive on November 11, 2024
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Team Energy Exemplar: October 5, 2026
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How PLEXOS® Handles Capacity Expansion and Resource Adequacy
Victoria Taylor: October 5, 2026
Ask a planning team how many tools it takes to answer, "what should we build, and will it keep the lights on," and you'll get an uncomfortable number.
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How Energy Modelling Supports Data-Center Siting Decisions
Team Energy Exemplar: October 2, 2026
The data center market is expanding at an unprecedented rate. The U.S. colocation market alone has doubled in size over the last four years....
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From Client to Catalyst: Anna Geevarghese’s Journey with Energy Exemplar
Team Energy Exemplar: October 2, 2026
Energy Exemplar’s 25-year journey is filled with remarkable stories of innovation and the people who made it possible. One of these is Anna...
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Modelling Increasing Complexity of the Irish SEM in PLEXOS®
Duncan Mathews: September 16, 2026
This is a guest blog from ClearPoint Power Consulting. To learn more about ClearPoint, and their services, visit:...
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Energy Exemplar Acquires SIMONE Research Group and LIWACOM Informationstechnik
Team Energy Exemplar: September 1, 2026
Strengthening a world-leading energy modeling and simulation platform with global leadership in gas network simulation and optimization
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FERC Order 1920 Compliance: How Energy Exemplar Helped Shape the Playbook
Victoria Taylor: August 27, 2026
For years, most new transmission in the U.S. has been justified on a single basis: near term reliability. More than 90% of recent transmission...
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How OPC Energy Accelerates Energy Market Decisions with PLEXOS® Agent Factory
Victoria Taylor: August 25, 2026
OPC Energy is a global energy company with operations spanning Israel and the US. As an independent power producer, OPC owns and operates natural gas...
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How AI Data Centers Change Siting, Interconnection, and Capital Risk
Victoria Taylor: August 19, 2026
AI data centers are not a scaling story anymore. They’re a brand-new category of grid demand, and the industry is scrambling to keep up.
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Modeling Resilience Across a Diversified Energy Portfolio with PLEXOS®
Victoria Taylor: August 18, 2026
Centrica operates across the UK, European and Nordic energy landscape, from residential supply under British Gas to a global optimization business...
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Seven Xcelerate London Lessons for Energy Modelling
Victoria Taylor: August 18, 2026
Europe is trying to do a lot at once. Clean up the grid, keep the lights on, keep bills manageable, and get hydrogen, storage, and electric...
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How Eversource Used PLEXOS® to Put a Price Tag on Good Grid Planning
Victoria Taylor: July 22, 2026
Eversource is New England's largest utility, serving more than 60% of the region's households and over 3.2 million electricity customers across...
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Energy Modeling Insight Without Building a Modeling Team
Gabriela Flores: July 16, 2026
How many organizations are making high-stakes energy decisions without the modeling insight to back them up?
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How AEP's Resource Planning Team Brings AI Into Its PLEXOS® Modeling Workflows
Victoria Taylor: July 13, 2026
American Electric Power (AEP) supports long-term resource planning across five vertically integrated utilities, serving 5.6 million customers and...
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Planning Sarawak’s Renewable Future with PLEXOS®
Victoria Taylor: July 6, 2026
Sarawak Energy is Malaysia’s largest renewable energy developer and a vertically integrated utility responsible for generation, transmission, retail,...
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Seven Xcelerate San Antonio Lessons for North American Energy Planning
Victoria Taylor: July 2, 2026
The energy system across the Americas is being pulled in several directions at once. Utilities are racing to hit decarbonization targets while...
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What Happens When the Energy System Gets Stress Tested
Victoria Taylor: June 29, 2026
For years, energy transition planning has largely focused on a familiar set of objectives – reliability, affordability, and decarbonization. But...
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The Energy Decisions You're Making Without the Analysis to Back Them
Gabriela Flores: June 17, 2026
How many decisions did you and your organization make last year without the analysis to fully support them? It's not a rhetorical question. Most...
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Seven Xcelerate Sydney Lessons for APAC Energy Planning
Victoria Taylor: June 9, 2026
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region sits at the sharp end of the global energy transition. It's home to some of the world's fastest-growing economies and...