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Simulation-Ready Datasets

Decarbonization Begins with Data

Understanding the changing energy landscape requires more modeling and simulation runs to make decisions with confidence. Underpinning your every decision is the trust that your data is accurate and well sourced. But collecting data, and ensuring its precision, to accurately model the energy ecosystem takes precious time and resources.

With Energy Exemplar Datasets, the accuracy of your simulations will never be an issue. Our Datasets are publicly sourced, extensively tested, and continuously updated.

 

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A View of the Future

Energy Exemplar datasets include likely renewable projects in the near future based on publicly available information. Understand what projects are likely to be built based on economic and policy factors, inside or outside any particular portfolio.

 

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Future Technology Assumptions

Our datasets include publicly-sourced assumptions about renewable technologies such as capacities, traces, capital and operating costs which can help inform decision-making around project

 

Energy Modeling

Model with Confidence

Energy Exemplar datasets are pre-configured market models allowing users to run analyses with lower start-up costs and unmatched data accuracy. Run analysis such as:

  • Long-term and short-term power price formation
  • Transmission congestion
  • Fuel consumption and budgeting
  • Valuation of new generation projects for both renewable and thermal generators
  • Timing of new resource additions and retirement decisions
  • Impact of generator and transmission outages, and more

All power datasets come with a pre-configured backcast year of hourly model results, demonstrating the model's accuracy. In North America and Europe, the datasets also come with long-term capacity build-out and corresponding power price forecast covering a 10 to 25-year horizon.

 
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Gas Fundamental Market Model

Capture the daily dynamic movement of gas prices and flow. Clearly understand the relationship between the gas market's daily fluctuations and changes in electricity load and dispatch patterns.
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Regional Datasets

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North America

NAM datasets

North American Datasets are available for both PLEXOS and Aurora and are available for zonal or nodal analysis covering ERCOT, WECC and EIC. North American datasets include a 20+ year price forecast for 139 areas, incorporating over 26,000 generators with unique operating characteristics.

 

With our North American Datasets you'll be able to:

  • Understand the impact of new generators and load growth on power prices
  • Run you own sensitivities and cases on top of our benchmarked Simulation Ready Datasets
  • Understand congestion and LMPs with our nodal product
North American Dataset Specifications

North American Datasets include:

  • 20+ year price forecast for 139 areas
  • Over 26,000 generators with unique operating characteristics
  • Approximately 120,000 nodal buses modeled
  • Model-driven generator resource expansion plan
  • 43 natural gas hub forecasts for gas generators
  • Plant-specific coal forecasts
  • Up-to-date demand forecasts created using ISO and other available data
  • Solar rating factors for fixed and tracking axis technologies
  • Unique hourly wind shapes for 95 wind regions with three unique wind classifications for each configuration
  • A detailed set of release notes with each new dataset
  • Mappings of generators to those within other major reports (CELT, Gold Book, CDR, WECC ADS, etc.)
  • Hydro generation by plant with detailed monthly regional hydro shapes based on EIE-923 data since 2008
  • CO2, NOx, SOx and HG using the latest existing environmental programs

Sources include:

  • Power plants are derived using EIA, EPA, ISO and independent research
  • Fuel forecasts from Annual Energy Outlook and Short-Term Energy Outlook by the EIA
  • New generator characteristics derived from EIA Table 8.2 and expanded upon through Energy Exemplar analysis
  • Transmission links are nodally informed and enhanced using the latest power flow planning reports (e.g.: MMWG, SSWG, etc…)
  • Hourly demand shapes for each area sourced from FERC 714 and other sources
  • Solar rating factors were derived from the NREL System Advisor Model (SAM v2016.3.14)
  • Hourly wind rating factors were derived from NREL’s Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit
  • ISO, EIA, EPA, NERC and FERC data and reports where appropriate

Latin America

LATAM Datasets-1

The Simulation Ready Latin America Dataset includes a 15 to 30 year price forecast for 53 zones, incorporating over 600 generators with unique operating characteristics.

Latin American Dataset Specifications

México

  • Horizon: 14 years
  • Real hourly demand obtained from the actual operation from the system for the 9 regions
  • Forecasted demand by region used by SENER for modelling the system for PRODESEN. That data is directly obtained from PRODESEN.
  • Generation capacity data used by SENER for modelling the system. This was lastly updated by SENER in 2018.

Honduras

  • Horizon: 4 years
  • Electric system with 126 generators and 58 georeferenced nodes.
  • Contains modeling of 8 reservoirs with turbine efficiency tables.
  • Modeling of 25 hydrological samples, with which stochastic analysis is performed with SDDP methodology.
  • Transmission constraints modeled with dynamic blocks.
  • Contains the offers of the EOR countries, modeled as an equivalent generator.

Colombia

  • Horizon: 6 years.
  • Electricity system with 473 generators, 940 transmission lines and 166 georeferenced nodes.
  • Modeling of 50 hydrological samples, with which stochastic analyses are performed with SDDP and Monte Carlo methodology.
  • Contains modeling of 79 reservoirs with turbine efficiency tables.

Brazil

  • Horizon: up to 1 year.
  • Resolution: 3 to 48 blocks a day.
  • 2,196 Generators, 162 Storages and 6-Nodes.
  • Hydro-thermal model.
  • Deterministic demand.
  • Deterministic renewable generation.
  • FCF from DECOMP.
  • Input and output source: CCEE.

Peru

  • Horizon: 3 years.
  • Electricity system with 207 generators (considering short-term parameters in thermoelectric power plants) and 166 georeferenced nodes.
  • Modeling of short-term restrictions.
  • Modeling of 60 hydrological samples, with which stochastic analyses are performed with Monte Carlo methodology.
  • Includes modeling of the entire Peru watershed.

Chile

  • Horizon: 23 years.
  • Generation system, transmission lines and operating plants complete by 2021.
  • Transmission and generation works plan determined by the Chilean ISO for the next 23 years.
  • 889 generators, 242 reservoirs and 394 transmission lines with voltage ranges 66 to 500 kV.
  • Includes modeling of irrigation constraints characteristic of the Chilean electrical system.
  • Modeling of 59 hydrological samples, with which stochastic analyses are performed with the SDDP methodology.

Europe

EMEA Datasets v2

Our Simulation Ready Datasets are available for Western EU Zonal, Eastern EU Zonal and Southern EU Zonal. We provide individual or connected countries on request.

The Simulation Ready Europe Dataset includes up to a 20 year price forecast for 40 countries, incorporating 10,360 generators with unique operating characteristics.

Available datasets include: C&W Europe, N Europe, S Europe, SE Europe and Turkey

Sources Include:

  • Demand and Generator data is from a mixture of ENTSOE, TSOs and proprietary research data
  • Historical demand data is also primarily sourced from ENTSOE
  • National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) for emissions constraints
  • Wind and solar shapes are based on ENTSOE generation data
  • Fuels are derived from reports from Eurostat and the European Commission
European Dataset Specifications

European Datasets Include:

  • 30-year price forecast for 40 countries
  • 57 market areas
  • Projected build out/retirements through 2054
  • 10,360 generators with unique characteristics
  • Operating characteristics including:
    • Heat rates for thermal units
    • Forced outage rates (FOR)
    • Maintenance outage rates (MOR)
    • Fixed operating and maintenance costs (FOM)
    • Variable operating and maintenance costs (VOM)
    • Start-up costs
    • Start-up attributes
    • Capacity ratings, min and max
    • Minimum up and minimum down time
    • Emission rates for NOx, SOx and CO2
    • Installation dates for new and retirement dates for old- Ramp rate
  • Pumped storage and hydro modeled with its characteristics to enable optimizations with unit commitment and dispatch
  • Historic and future pricing for eight natural gas hubs fuel oil, coal and carbon
  • Country-specific natural gas, fuel oil and coal pricing for demand modeling, average energy, peak energy and an hourly shape profile
  • Country-specific National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) constraints for 35 countries
  • Reflections of national policies such as coal and nuclear phase outs
  • New resource-build options and country-specific costs for new resources
  • Transfers between country corridors for the entire European system
  • Country-specific wind and solar shapes based on ENTSOE generation data

Asia Pacific

APAC Datasets

Our Simulation Ready Datasets are available for Australia NEM, Australia WEM, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, and Singapore.

Asia Pacific Dataset Specifications

Australia NEM

  • Bid-based model
  • Full list of generation, nodes & companies operating
  • Solar & Wind ratings included
  • One region and node for 5 regions
  • New developments & ratings for existing generation for ten years
  • Includes offer quantities & bids for generators (as published by AEMO)
  • Transmission limits modelled as per physical & system operator constraints

Australia WEM

  • Bid-based model
  • One region, 11 zones, 11 Nodes with 10 lines
  • Load forecasting, generation profiles & maintenance, outage rates available
  • All companies operating modelled

Japan

  • Data as of 2022 with a 20 year horizon
  • Provides generation & associated fuel prices
  • Model of the 9 interconnected zones, plus Okinawa
  • 2022-2041 Long-Term Capacity Expansion model and Long-Term Price forecast

Philippines

  • 3 Regions (for each island group), 9 zones with 1194 nodes
  • Load forecasting, generation profiles & maintenance, outage rates available
  • Full list of generation, nodes & companies operating
  • Transmission & generation lines

South Korea

  • Snapshot dataset (no future generation or demand)
  • Solar and Wind ratings included
  • Provides generation and associated fuel prices
  • Single region and node for the area
  • Bid based/Cost based dataset

New Zealand

  • Bid based, three regions/three nodes with one node for each region
  • Load forecasting, generation profiles and maintenance and outage rates available
  • Offer limits implemented
  • 40 years build-out

Singapore

  • Full list of generation, nodes and companies operating
  • Solar and Wind ratings included
  • Single generation and demand node
  • Cost-based dataset

Taiwan

  • Cost-based dataset
  • Full list of generation, nodes and companies operating
  • Load forecasting, generation profiles and maintenance and outage rates available
  • Long term capacity expansion plan included (20 years)
  • Reserves market modelled

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