OptiMES
Optimization of Multi-Energy Systems
Strategize the energy transition with data-driven precision: OptiMES generates an optimal investment roadmap by balancing costs, capacity, and decarbonization targets within a comprehensive, integrated optimization framework.
Business problem
Managing the energy transition requires long-term decision-making regarding asset lifecycle, including commissioning and decommissioning, while balancing emissions objectives and network reliability. Traditional siloed methodologies often introduce cumulative inefficiencies.
OptiMES resolves these complexities through a single, integrated optimization model.
Our solution
OptiMES simultaneously optimizes capacity expansion and multi-energy dispatching across multi-year horizons. The platform models both electricity and heat networks, evaluates alternative scenarios under varying emissions constraints, and produces a strategic investment roadmap complete with Net Present Value (NPV) analysis and CO₂ reduction trajectories.
How it works
OptiMES functions through a three-phase process: input acquisition, integrated optimization, and output generation.
- Input: Integration of network parameters, renewable resource availability, generation technologies, demand forecasts, capital investment parameters, and emissions trajectories.
- Optimization: Concurrent optimization of hourly multi-energy dispatching and long-term asset lifecycle planning, ensuring compliance with energy balance requirements, DC Power Flow constraints, and CO₂ targets.
- Output: Delivery of an optimal investment roadmap, NPV analysis, and projected emissions reduction outcomes.
Benefits
- Data-driven decarbonization roadmap, ensuring alignment with regulatory standards over multi-year horizons.
- Simultaneous optimization of capacity expansion and operational dispatching with integrated NPV calculation.
- Rapid scenario analysis, enabling the evaluation of diverse technology mixes and constraint frameworks.
- Significant enhancement in analytical efficiency compared to legacy methodologies.
