Event Schedule
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
A Warm Welcome to Xcelerate Barcelona 2023
Our Head of EMEA, Michael Schneider, opens Xcelerate 2023 with a warm welcome and provides an update on Energy Exemplar and PLEXOS in the region.
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Global Update & Vision
Empowering Decision-Making with Energy Analytics: A Path to Clarity Amid Uncertainty
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Long-Term Plan for Hydro and Large-scale Systems
In this presentation, Dr. Glenn Drayton will discuss techniques for solving large-scale and complex LT Plan problems with an example stochastic hydro LT Plan.
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Hydrogen Economy - Hype or Reality?!
Hydrogen is perceived as one of the cornerstones of the next phase of the energy transition. Considering that more than 50% of the global energy consumption cannot or not easily be electrified, there is currently a big hype discussion around the hydrogen economy. The presentation will show backgrounds, projects and technologies - and show why digitalization and simulation are key parts to improve profitability and growth.Speaker
[Panel] The Challenges & Opportunities of creating low-carbon Energy Businesses
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[Panel] Getting the model right – Market modelling: Tips & Traps
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Track 1: Securing Energy Supply
Modelling Europe's short-term Security of Supply scenarios in PLEXOS
Using our pan-European gas model, we have focused it on analysing all aspects of the “Security of Supply” crisis in Europe. Join us as we present this short-term simulation model (Jul 2022 -June 2024) which takes a highly granular and deep-dive approach, capturing all the fundamentals that affect the timely availability of gas to and within Europe. And see the regional and country level outcomes to cold weather events, critical infrastructure failures, excessive non-market interventions and variable merchant LNG supply availability.
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Track 2: Accelerating Decarbonisation
LT Modelling to reach Net Zero Emissions - Introducing Chronology for Modelling Short-term Storage
Traditionally, simple methods such as load duration curves have been used to perform capacity expansion planning. Now, the UAE, and indeed the world, are decarbonising rapidly, significantly changing power system dynamics and modelling needs to keep up with the changes due to these ambitious goals. Numerous regions, including the UAE, are moving to a power system with high Variable Renewable Energy (VRE) penetration and energy storage is essential to enable this. Traditional Long-Term modelling methods are not able to model these systems, therefore, to assess the optimal energy mix in a decarbonised world, modellers need to introduce methods to capture chronology in their LT models.
EWEC (Emirates Water and Electricity Company) presents some of the challenges and lessons learnt from incorporating this modelling improvement into our planning.
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Track 1: Securing Energy Supply
[Panel] Modelling Gas Supply & Storage
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Track 2: Accelerating Decarbonisation
[Panel] Emissions Modelling & Net Zero Planning
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Track 1: Securing Energy Supply
ENTSOG 2023-24 European Supply Gas Summer Outlook
Summer Supply Outlook assess the ability of the European gas infrastructures to provide flexibility while enabling shippers to fill storage in preparation of the winter. Winter Supply Outlook assesses both the possible evolution of UGS inventory along different winter cases as well as the resilience of the European gas infrastructures under peak conditions.
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Track 2: Accelerating Decarbonisation
Integrated resource planning at ESKOM
Planning for new capacity expansion has evolved over the years traditionally, these studies were carried out using the load duration curve (LDC) approach to sample chronology and sometimes full chronology. These techniques significantly impact the expansion plans, the fidelity of variable renewable resources, simulation, and computational requirements. Our presentation at this forum will compare results from sampled chronology with linear relaxation full chronology, investigate the adequacy of the plan, shows seasonal variation of variable. Energy Planning uses PLEXOS to develop South Africa's Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and Eskom's Just Energy Transition (JET), these are new generation capacity pathways that consider the existing, committed, and economic retirements of power lines and generators over the next 30 years.
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Track 1: Securing Energy Supply
Economic Viability Assessment of European Generation Resources
The first step in European Resource Adequacy Assessment (ERAA) is to analyse the economic viability of generation resources. To model this long-term planning problem in the context of EU electricity market, we need to overcome first and foremost the computational complexities while keeping the problem as robust as possible.
During this session we will focus on the specific settings and modelling properties of PLEXOS that allowed us in performing this task.
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Track 2: Accelerating Decarbonisation
Moving Big Things to Zero Across Borders
In our short presentation we will discuss a real -world use case of a major renewable energy developer leveraging incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act to decarbonize a chemical process and ultimately produce carbon neutral fuels to export across borders.
MAN used PLEXOS to model chemical process by simulating the dispatch and charging of a Power to X facility. This exercise leveraged the Power to X, Gas Storage and Market functionalities within PLEXOS.
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Track 1: Securing Energy Supply
[Panel] Ensuring the grid of tomorrow can support the renewable, markets, and storage technologies
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Track 2: Accelerating Decarbonisation
[Panel] Low Carbon Technology Modelling in PLEXOS
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Track 1: Securing Energy Supply
Locational marginal pricing analysis in the Baltic States
Baltic transmissions system operators performed common study of locational marginal pricing analysis as required within European Bidding Zone review process. The market simulation results were used together with network analysis to identify grid bottlenecks and contingencies. Energy Exemplar’s PLEXOS market modelling tool allowed Baltic TSOs to comply with all requirements of the Bidding Zone review process, allocating minimal resources for post-processing data. A common market model used by all Baltic TSOs enabled full cooperation and timely project implementation.
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Track 2: Accelerating Decarbonisation
Optimisation of off-grid hydrogen production systems using PLEXOS
Here we are focussing on a tractable, simple off-grid hydrogen production system where we have the combination of solar PV and onshore wind for power generation, electrolyser for hydrogen production, hydrogen storage (and battery storage and grid connection, when specified) to meet a given hydrogen demand.
The model optimises the sizing of each component for minimum hydrogen production cost, for given demand profiles and operational constraints (under perfect foresight, unless specified). We have used the gas and power modules in PLEXOS for this work and also explored the stochastic functionality in PLEXOS for a resilient solution given the uncertainty with weather patterns.
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