Event Schedule
Wednesday, 6 March 2024
PLEXOS Certification Training for Beginners
Adding Markets & Constraints
Everything from Energy, Capacity, to Ancillary Services Markets play a crucial role in determining how system settlements occur. We explore a host of markets represented in PLEXOS and learn how to describe them. Along with Markets, custom constraints can be used to represent any number of policies, goals, and non-economic positions required for modeling the actual power sector.
Key Takeaways:
- How to add Markets to a dataset.
- Constraints can be used to a variety of non-economic conditions.
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PLEXOS Intermediate/Advanced Training
PLEXOS Cloud
By working through an automation example using PLEXOS cloud, we aim to demonstrate how participants might go about implementing automatisation processes in their own workflow.
Key Topics:
- Automation
- Command Line Interface
- Stochastics
- Dashboard
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PLEXOS Certification Training for Beginners
Heat Rates & Ancillary Services
PLEXOS allows the user to fine-tune the system using value-based modeling techniques. Heat rates are used as an example of how to build highly efficient models and how to combine the power of the Excel work environment with PLEXOS to maximise productivity.
Key Takeaways:
- How heat rates work to formulate short run marginal costs.
- Value-based modeling maintains high quality while maximising run times.
- Integrating Excel to the workflow dramatically increases productivity.
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PLEXOS Certification Training for Beginners
System Adequacy
Systems are prone to breakdowns and require maintenance. We explore system maintenance and random outages and how they affect the reliability of our system.
Key Takeaways:
- Three types of outages modeled in PLEXOS.
- The Projected Assessment of System Adequacy (PASA) phase.
- Reliability indices.
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PLEXOS Intermediate/Advanced Training
ST Model Calibration
This session mirrors the earlier LT session discussing the trade-off between precision and performance and includes some examination of unexpected behaviors in the ST.
Key Topics:
- Integer vs Linear
- Unit Commitment Constraints
- Unexpected Behaviour
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PLEXOS Certification Training for Beginners
Medium Term Modeling - Intro to LT Plan
It is impossible to consider every aspect of a system of any meaningful size over the medium term when operating in real-time. The MT Schedule solves this problem by optimising medium term objectives and passing them to the ST Schedule.
Key Takeaways:
- How data can be simplified.
- Types of decisions optimised in the Medium Term.
- Chronological approximation strategies.
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PLEXOS Intermediate/Advanced Training
Universal PLEXOS
By using the Universal Classes in PLEXOS to model combinatorial and network flow problems, this session aims to reinforce the out-of-the box thinking introduced in the first session.
Key Topics:
- Combinatorial Optimisation Problems
- Network Flow Problems
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