Delivering better decisions faster for planning, scheduling and trading of energy
Across organizations, decision-making should be about seeking to improve performance. The challenge is that decisions comprise of different layers of factors, all on different timescales, each with different levels of uncertainty and varying degrees of impact. In the decision-making process, four key areas are being improved: data, situational awareness, analytics, foresight. New technology is advancing and interconnecting these areas for faster decisions with reduced uncertainty.
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To decide 'What should I do now that's best for
me over this financial period?' requires accurate decisions and clear
implementable actions. Digitalization of data, analytics and workflows
are compressing the time required to make these decisions. Visual MESA™
Multi-Period Optimizer (VM-MPO) is a high-fidelity analytics technology
that brings together data, first principles digital twins and
multi-period constraints in a purpose-built mixed integer optimization
to continually ensure that the right decisions are made about which
generation assets to start up, shut down and where to deploy energy at
lowest economic cost.
Real-time optimization of energy systems has proven fairly effective to
date, typically saving 2–5% of site energy costs. By adding an upper
decision layer where the time-sensitive variables are optimally defined,
a real time reactive optimizer can be transformed into a proactive
look-ahead optimization. This allows scheduling engineers and operators
to achieve optimal operation of energy systems over various time
horizons when dealing with multiple time-dependent constraints enhancing
the benefits.
However achieving beneficial performance not only requires speed of
solution, situational awareness, knowing the constraints and reducing
the assumptions; it needs reduced implementation time through improved
workflows, clear actions and closed loop. Only then can a better
decision be delivered faster.
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