Easily Integrate with Existing Workflows
Capabilities such as linking with Excel, importing from other databases, scripting to automate data entry, and computational data sets (CDS to automate pre- or post-processes) all enable easy integration with any process. Integrations further include web-based data sources and other subscription services.
Comprehensive Output Reporting
Aurora provides numerous unique types of zonal and nodal output tables. Results are available at a sub-hourly, hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly level. What is included in the results is fully customizable, and queries and quick views make it easy to run the same reports on all your simulations. Outputs also include powerful diagnostic detail for long-term, zonal, and nodal simulations to better understand the results.
Increased Productivity and Ease in Managing Multiple Projects
Quickly and effectively use proprietary assumptions to create a robust set of scenarios and results for decision-makers. Aurora's Project Scheduler provides multiple concurrent simulation runs in a single interface. Multiple scheduled projects can run in the background across multiple servers and you can see them all from a single place.
Enhanced GIS Visualization
Aurora includes a powerful GIS display to visualize bus-level results for nodal simulations. It can produce heat maps for various outputs, including all three components of LMPs: marginal energy costs, congestion, and losses.
Furthermore, Aurora displays loss penalty factors and loss sensitivities. Users can instantly see how system losses would change with respect to a net injection at a given bus. Results are available by time period and condition (e.g., on-peak)
Comprehensive, Ready-to-Run Datasets Save You Time and Effort
Aurora is offered with some of the most comprehensive and meticulously researched datasets available. Expressly created for modeling power markets, the North American (covering WECC, EIC, and ERCOT) datasets come ready to run and are updated yearly. Our team of analysts scours national, regional, and local sources for relevant detail on all major drivers affecting dispatch and market prices, such as:
- Long Term Capacity Expansion (LTCE)
- Generating Unit Detail (including renewables)
- Fuel Price Forecasts
- Area, Zone & Pool Demand
- Hydro Energy and Constraints
- Emissions Rates, Limits & Prices
- Spinning & Operating Reserves
- Nodal & Zonal Transmission
- Flexible System Definition
- Online Data Documentation
Capture Impacts of RPS, Emissions, other Constraints
Model non-fundamental constraints like mass and rate-based emission limits, RPS targets, and reserve margin targets. Aurora’s robust LTCE logic will optimize the generation mix while allowing users to understand impacts of these constraints.
No Limits on Generator Types & Options
The full set of standard operational and cost parameters for new and existing resources are considered in the LTCE, providing a robust framework from which to evaluate different technologies types (baseload, RES, storage, demand side, etc.), as well as different cost and incentive profiles.
Resource & Portfolio Valuation
Portfolio capability is a post-process reporting option that allows entities to focus on the performance of their resources and/or contracts to serve a load profile or against the market if no load is defined.
Power Costing & Market Exposure
Aurora will calculate net power costs and system costs for individual resources. Markets, developers, and utilities can use this capability to easily determine how to position a contract or value a new resource (or acquisition) in the market.
Analyzing Complex Contracts & Portfolio Options
Over 35 contract types are available to model contract purchases and sales. A variety of variables can be added to a contract or to a combination of contracts for more complex agreements.
Input Forecast Prices
Use Aurora's generated price forecast or specify a specific set of electric prices by zone. Run portfolio or resource analysis using input forward electric prices rather than Aurora's price forecast.
With Aurora Cloud Workspace customers can choose a stepped approach to cloud computing capabilities. Use a hybrid or full cloud approach, depending on your needs.
Add the compute power of cloud to your existing Aurora desktop software.
Run complex simulations while reducing simulation times.
Collaborate with colleagues securely from any location.
Aurora Cloud runs on industry-leading IaaS cloud providers using the highest levels of security and compliance.