Empowering Academia with Real-World Energy Market Modeling Tools

Universities worldwide use PLEXOS® to model electricity, water, gas, and renewable energy markets. Professors, researchers, and students gain no-cost academic licenses, real-world datasets, and expert guidance to explore today’s complex energy ecosystem.

PLEXOS for Academics

No-cost Academic Licenses and Learning Opportunities with PLEXOS®

We offer three types of academic licenses to meet your needs.

Student

Student Course

Learn energy market modeling with the same software the industry trusts

Professors

Professors

The industry’s top tool, now in your classroom

Research

Academic Researchers

The trusted simulation tool for groundbreaking academic studies

For Students: Free Course and License Modelling Power Systems Using  PLEXOS®

Energy Exemplar’s new on-demand course, “Modelling Power Systems Using PLEXOS®,” gives undergraduates and continuing education students an accessible introduction to power system modelling.  You will learn how to simulate electricity markets, interpret results, and explore the impact of renewables, storage, and policy choices—all with the same software used by industry professionals.

  • Structured online modules with hands-on exercises
  • Access to a student license of PLEXOS® with compute credits, access to Playbooks, and PLEXOS® Cloud
  • Exposure to real case studies and data, so you can “jump right in and perform the work of a real energy market analyst.”  
  •  A PLEXOS® certificate to strengthen your résumé or CV

PLEXOS for Academics

For Professors: Teach with Real World Energy Simulations

Bring modern energy market modelling into the classroom. PLEXOS® allows you to demonstrate actual simulations with factual study cases and real datasets, so your students learn with authentic industry examples. Complex data structures, regulatory considerations and environmental policies are built into the software, so you can focus on teaching—not system administration.

 

  • Free academic license for teaching and free licenses for your students
  • Guidance from our learning team to simplify the syllabus and course planning process
  • Ability to unify multiple data streams and quantify transmission planning decisions at long-term, hourly, or sub hourly scales

Professors Teach with real World Energy Simulations

For Researchers: Use PLEXOS® to Drive Your Research or Student Projects

PLEXOS® is trusted by academic researchers and industry leaders for energy market simulation because it lets you work with real data and sophisticated algorithms.  Whether you are analyzing renewable integration, system expansion, storage, or market design, PLEXOS® unifies numerous data streams into one platform.

  • No-cost noncommercial license for undergrad, master's and PhD research or projects
  • Product certifications to get you started
  • Access to Xpert, our learning platform, and a robust Help Center

PLEXOS for Researchers

Academic licenses are for noncommercial purposes; funded research and consulting projects are excluded.  When your research concludes, you agree to share how PLEXOS® was used and provide a copy of your thesis or article along with model datasets and assumptions. 


Dr Paul Deane
 
What people are saying

The world needs solutions. We have a huge problem around climate action, around climate change, and around energy.  We need quick solutions and we need really good software to help us de-risk the future. PLEXOS allows you to tackle these problems quickly and it allows you to approach a problem in a very transparent and confident way.

 

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Paul Deane

Research Fellow at University College Cork, Ireland