Event Schedule
Thursday, 7 March 2024
A Warm Welcome to Xcelerate Melbourne 2024
Our Chief Revenue Officer, Stuart Kelly, opens the Xcelerate 2024 conference with a warm welcome and provides an update on Energy Exemplar and PLEXOS in the region.Speaker
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Energy Exemplar Keynote
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Guest Keynote
Planning the Energy Transition
We are pleased to announce that a special guest will be joining us from The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) to take part in a guest speaking session.
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Energy Exemplar Keynote Interview
We are excited to be joined by, Dr. Glenn Drayton, Energy Exemplar's Founder and Chief Scientist for our final keynote of the morning.
More details to follow!
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Guest Panel Discussion
Energising Tomorrow: C-Level Strategies for Driving the Energy Transition to Net-Zero
Join our distinguished C-level panelists as they share strategic insights and collaborative approaches to navigate the transformative journey towards net-zero, exploring innovative solutions that promise to shape the sustainable future of the energy landscape.
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Track 1: Technical Agenda
Modelling Green Ammonia Value Chain: Gentari Experience
In this session, Gentari will provide an assessment of how they have modelled the green ammonia value chain using PLEXOS. Throughout the presentation, Mr Sandeep Sarin from Gentari will uncover the diverse modelling methods used to scrutinize, analyse and optimize the value chain for renewable-powered ammonia production. Expect a demonstration highlighting how Gentari has used PLEXOS to assess the green ammonia project feasibility. Additionally, we will also gain insight into the company’s businesses and how they use PLEXOS to make smart investment choices.
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Track 2: Commercial Agenda
How to use PLEXOS to figure out how to navigate your energy transition (on a tight budget): Threats and war gaming assessment for a state or a country
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Track 1: Technical Agenda
Grid Generation Adequacy Study: Ensuring Reliable Future Capacity through Comprehensive Analysis
The "Grid Generation Adequacy Analysis" is a comprehensive initiative focused on ensuring future capacity and reliability within the power grid. This study involves an in-depth evaluation of medium and long-term generation plans using PLEXOS modeling and an analysis of the impact of variable renewable energy penetration. The goal is to provide valuable insights and recommendations for improving the grid's reliability.
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Track 2: Commercial Agenda
Unique Modelling features in Singapore’s Electricity Market
The Energy Market Company (EMC) has recently developed two models for Singapore's electricity market in collaboration with Energy Exemplar. The short-term model includes EMC's market clearing algorithm, which features co-optimisation of energy, regulation, and reserve products and a unique demand response scheme specific to Singapore. The long-term model builds on the short-term model and incorporates Singapore's energy transition plans until 2050, which rely primarily on hydrogen and electricity imports. Overall, the energy market modeling project for Singapore's electricity market is a comprehensive effort to analyse and understand the complexities of the market, providing valuable insights for policymakers, stakeholders, and investors. By combining advanced modelling techniques with a deep understanding of Singapore's unique energy landscape, the project aims to support the sustainable and reliable development of Singapore's electricity market for years to come.Guest Speaker
Track 1: Technical Agenda
ACEN’s Journey to Integrating PLEXOS in Energy Management Activities
As the Philippine electricity market continues to evolve, ACEN has transitioned from using an in-house forecasting tool to integrating PLEXOS in use cases from short-term trading to long-term business strategy. This session will give a brief background of the Philippine landscape, then a talk-through of the challenges that ACEN has had to overcome and how PLEXOS aids the organisation in reaching its goal of 20 GW of renewables by 2030.Guest Speaker
Track 2: Commercial Agenda
Impact of Weather Sensitivities in PLEXOS Modeling
The impact of weather on the NEM is becoming more and more important due to the increasing prevalence of renewable generation. At Energy Australia, we recognise the dynamic nature of weather patterns and incorporate the assessment of multiple weather years in our PLEXOS modelling. Our presentation will highlight why we run multiple weather sensitivities and how we utilise these results to inform decisions.Guest Speakers
Track 2: Commercial Agenda
Power System Modelling to Support the Clean Energy Transition in APAC
As the energy sector is undergoing significant transition towards clean energy, key stakeholders including governments, companies and investors are exploring options and pathway to shape a secure and cost-effective transition. At the same time there are concerns over the potential impact of uncertainties in key factors including policies, commodity prices, market and technology development.
DNV has conducted several energy market studies using modelling tools, such as PLEXOS, to assist energy sector stakeholders in APAC in decision-making on technology options, operational practices, investment, policy roadmap and regulatory frameworks. These studies, include for example, power price forecasting, system planning, role of flexibility options including battery and cross-border interconnectors.Guest Speaker
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Track 1: Technical Agenda
PLEXOS implementation for MHI’s Mission to Net Zero
MHI is deploying a variety of solutions for Energy Transition such as carbon capture, advanced gas turbine or hydrogen ecosystem while Mission Net Zero is announced to achieve carbon neutrality in 2040. Implementation of PLEXOS has been always accompanied by such introduction of new technology in MHI, but MHI has started contributing to the industry by its analytical capability which is accumulated through experience. MHI would like to explain the current application of analysis in the APAC region and share the thought of a realistic way of decarbonisation.
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Track 2: Commercial Agenda
Streamlining Cethana Pumped Hydro Energy Storage (PHES) Design with PLEXOS
As Australia's leading renewable energy producer, Hydro Tasmania plays a pivotal role in the country’s transition towards a sustainable energy future. In alignment with the national goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the Cethana Pumped Hydro project is set to contribute 750 MW of deep storage to the national grid.This presentation will delve into the strategic use of PLEXOS for the Cethana PHES project. PLEXOS aids in financial assessment, size optimisation, environmental impact analysis, modifications in hydro scheme operations, and understanding grid-scale advantages. Gain insights into the high-level aspects of the Cethana PHES initiative and the pivotal role of PLEXOS in shaping its business strategy.
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Track 1: Technical Agenda
Residential District Analysis for Rooftop PVs Integrated with EVs in a Micro-grid
For rapid decarbonisation of urban energy systems, it is critical to utilize rooftop PV as much as possible. However, optimal rooftop PV capacity in a building cannot be enhanced if PV electricity usage is limited only in the building. Thus, district level optimisation in a microgrid is a promising pathway particularly when it is coupled with EV batteries. We apply PLEXOS for this study, and the results will be presented in the case study.Guest Speaker
Track 2: Commercial Agenda
Solving for H: Politely Asking a High Resolution Global Coupled Electricity & Hydrogen Model to Solve
Platforms like PLEXOS have made the process of building sizeable and complex energy system models a lot more manageable and allow us to be more ambitious with our modeling overall. But when you fly a little too close to the sun and the model outright refuses to solve, what levers can you pull?Guest Speaker
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Track 1: Technical Agenda
Generation Flexibility (Ramping Adequacy) Assessment for Peninsular Malaysia
The Government of Malaysia has announced a new RE capacity mix target of 70% by 2050 through its National Energy Transition Roadmap (NETR) in August 2023. This high RE target will be mainly driven by solar, capitalizing on the country’s large solar potential.
The increase of solar capacity on the demand side can potentially lead to a pronounced trough in the net demand profile, particularly during public holidays. The prevalence of deep troughs leads to concerns regarding the system's generation portfolio flexibility to efficiently ramp up and down.
This study evaluates the flexibility of future generation system in Peninsular Malaysia in anticipation of substantial ramping requirement, resulting from the increased solar capacity. The analysis utilizes PLEXOS software to simulate a granular 15-minute interval generation operation and detailed generator ramping. Results of the PLEXOS simulation show that the system is flexible enough to cater for the ramping requirements even with high solar capacity in 2030.
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Track 2: Commercial Agenda
Synergy's Operations in the Reformed WEM
Synergy's experience in adjusting to the reformed WEM, using PLEXOS to optimise dispatch and trading strategies in new markets.Guest Speaker
