Forecast capacity additions considering uncertain (stochastic) variables and generate adaptable plans that reduce costs across many possible future outcomes.
Navigating an uncertain future with Capacity Expansion modeling
The energy industry is evolving fast, making planning more complex than ever. The new Capacity Expansion function of GE Vernova’s PlanOS helps forecast capacity additions while considering uncertain variables, allowing you to make wiser, more cost-effective investment decisions.
Aiming to meet global decarbonization policies more efficiently and reliably requires tools capable of forecasting capacity additions. Current challenges in the energy sector and industry create a wide range of possible futures. Capacity Expansion gives you a stochastic approach to planning for this uncertainty. While prioritizing interoperability, Capacity Expansion is engineered to work across the Power Flow, Resource Adequacy, and Production Cost functions within PlanOS.
Capacity Expansion benefits
Prioritizing interoperability, GE Vernova’s Capacity Expansion is engineered to work across the Power Flow, Resource Adequacy, and Production Cost functions within PlanOS*. Explore how our stochastic analysis engine analyzes and plans for an evolving energy landscape.
Prepare for the energy transition. Develop more robust plans acknowledging the uncertainties in the energy transition and navigate across a wide range of possible futures.
Data within reach. Conduct hourly chronological simulations of secure, least cost, grid commitment and dispatch.
Incorporate variable grid conditions. PlanOS respects constraints on transmission, generation (e.g., min-up), and energy and emission limitations.
Transfer analysis. Simplify transmission topology using operating transfer limits and constrain the power flow between major load areas of your system.
Ready-made datasets. Model the Eastern Interconnection, Western Electricity Coordinating Council, ERCOT, and over 50 countries globally.
Enhance your workflow. Automate reports, simulations, and data management.
Capacity Expansion planning capabilities
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Renewable integration studies
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Emissions analysis
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Operations and maintenance forecasts
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Regulatory policy evaluation
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Transmission asset valuation
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Marketplace rule evaluation
PlanOS' functions
Revolutionize your integrated system planning experience
The PlanOS platform brings together GE Vernova’s decades of proven planning software tools (Production Cost, formerly MAPS*; Resource Adequacy, formerly MARS*; Power Flow, formerly PSLF*) and newly added Capacity Expansion into one powerful interface. PlanOS utilizes one shared dataset to seamlessly transition between analyses, like production cost, resource adequacy, and power flow, without the need for third-party add-ons.
This coordinated and holistic approach to analyzing a power system helps you break down traditional grid modeling silos and help you with your Integrated System Planning analysis.
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**Decarbonization, as used in this document, is intended to mean the reduction of carbon emissions on a kilogram per megawatt hour.
