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The PLEXOS® Platform: A Unified Environment for Energy System Modeling

Written by Team Energy Exemplar | Jan 27, 2026 5:17:50 PM

 

As global energy systems undergo rapid transformation, organizations face mounting pressure to plan, operate, and invest with greater speed, transparency, and adaptability.

This blog explores how the PLEXOS® platform integrates long-term planning, operational strategy, and real-time decision support into a single environment. Discover how this unified platform helps energy stakeholders simulate complex systems, optimize decisions, and act with greater clarity and confidence.

What is the PLEXOS® platform?

Unify energy planning, operations, and insight with confidence

The PLEXOS® platform by Energy Exemplar delivers a unified modeling and decision environment designed to support the full energy value chain. In today’s rapidly evolving energy system, marked by decarbonization goals, changing market structures, and increasing uncertainty, PLEXOS® enables organizations to move with clarity, speed, and data-backed conviction.

The platform integrates long-term planning, operational strategy, and real-time decision support within a single, cloud-delivered framework. Whether your focus is capacity expansion, market analysis, or dispatch optimization, PLEXOS® aligns teams and models through a trusted simulation engine, shared data environment, and built-in AI intelligence.

Core capabilities of the platform

A platform built for transformation

The PLEXOS® platform combines three core layers:

PLEXOS® engine – A proven simulation engine used globally across electricity, gas, water, hydrogen, and storage modeling. Known for its transparency, traceability, and flexibility, the engine supports multi-commodity modeling across all time horizons.

PLEXOS® Cloud – An enterprise-grade SaaS environment hosted on Microsoft Azure. Provides scalable compute, centralized collaboration, governance, and role-based access for teams working across markets and geographies.

PLEXOS® Intelligence – Embedded AI assistants that improve accessibility, diagnostics, and stakeholder communication. These tools help interpret outputs, identify root causes, and summarize findings in plain language.

Together, these layers form a cohesive environment that replaces fragmented tools and workflows. Every scenario and dataset flows through a consistent interface, reducing redundancy and improving accuracy across the organization.

Multi-commodity, multi-horizon modeling

The PLEXOS® engine enables:

  • Multi-commodity co-optimization (electricity, gas, water, hydrogen, and universal)
  • Simulations across long-term planning to near real-time dispatch
  • Support for deterministic, stochastic, and portfolio-based studies
  • Scenario-rich design with complete equation and constraint transparency
  • Seamless fidelity from national-level to nodal-level simulations

Teams gain flexibility and confidence with:

  • Full control of simulation parameters
  • Audit-ready outputs with regulatory-grade documentation
  • Integration-ready results for enterprise systems

Cloud collaboration at scale with PLEXOS® Cloud

PLEXOS® Cloud brings the power of the engine to a secure, web-accessible workspace. Teams can:

  • Accelerate simulations using elastic compute
  • Run, edit, and version scenarios collaboratively
  • Visualize results through dashboards and Excel integration
  • Apply governance through audit trails and access controls

AI support for clearer energy decisions with PLEXOS® Intelligence

PLEXOS® Intelligence enhances the platform with solutions designed to:

  • Summarize key insights in natural language
  • Diagnose anomalies and infeasibilities without manual trial and error
  • Support users with in-app guidance and digital analyst tools
  • Make results accessible to executives, policymakers, and investors

Prebuilt datasets and ready-to-use solutions

Trusted data, ready to run

Simulation Ready Datasets provide:

  • Prebuilt, calibrated data for global markets
  • Full transparency, documentation, and release notes
  • Public source foundations with easy customization

These datasets reduce time-to-model and improve study defensibility.

Extend platform value with modular solutions

In addition to the core platform, Energy Exemplar offers optional add-ons designed to accelerate results and reduce modeling overhead:

  • PLEXOS® Pulse – Delivers daily market insights through an AI-powered interface for fast analysis. Available in Europe.

  • PLEXOS® Insights – Provides ready-to-use forecasts and dashboards built by modeling experts to support trading and planning.

  • PLEXOS® Playbooks – Offers editable templates and prebuilt scenarios to simplify IRPs and other common studies.

These solutions are designed to help teams move faster, improve transparency, and focus more on strategic analysis, without needing to build everything from scratch.

Why PLEXOS® makes a difference

With PLEXOS®, energy teams replace fragmented tools with one shared environment, helping them model faster, align decisions across departments, and respond to change with agility. Organizations using the platform report reduced modeling turnaround time, improved stakeholder alignment, and greater confidence in regulatory submissions. Whether you’re forecasting prices, planning investments, or stress-testing policy, PLEXOS® delivers consistent results you can stand behind.

How to get started

Get started with the PLEXOS® platform

From regulators and market operators to utilities and investors, organizations use PLEXOS® to shape energy strategy and operations with greater alignment and confidence.

The PLEXOS® platform works alongside Aurora and Adapt2, forming a comprehensive suite of solutions within the Energy Exemplar portfolio.

Discover how the PLEXOS® platform can support your next modeling initiative.