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MAS Consulting joins the Terranova group

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MAS Consulting becomes part of the Terranova group

MAS Consulting joins the Terranova group: a new partnership for the Energy & Utilities market, with a joint offer for gas and power sales and the group's support to grow in Italy and abroad.

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IDRO, planning and market strategy for hydropower plants: planning, strategy, value

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Hydropower: how to get the most value from the energy produced with IDRO

In hydropower, optimising also means knowing when and how to get the most from the energy produced. Long-term planning, intraday optimisation, bidding strategies and entry price: this is how IDRO links water resource management to market decisions.

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MAIA: faults detected by SCADA and information linked to unavailability management

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SCADA faults and unavailability: how MAIA makes plant management timely

In managing power plants, timely information makes the difference. With MAIA, fault reports arrive automatically from SCADA systems and feed unavailability management, including communication with Terna.

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Energy & Utilities Forum 2026, 27-30 October: webinar on offer pricing on 30 October

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Energy & Utilities Forum 2026: pricing power and gas offers, from sales to invoice

From 27 to 30 October the Energy & Utilities Forum by Trilance, the Terranova group division for the gas and power market, is back. On 30 October Matteo Alberti, CEO of MAS Consulting, speaks at the webinar on the operational challenges of pricing.

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BILLY, power and gas supply price simulator: from the customer's bill to the new offer

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How to simulate a power and gas bill transparently: BILLY

How much does transparency matter when proposing a new power or gas offer? With BILLY, supply companies rebuild the customer's full bill and simulate their own offers using the ARERA calculation logic, including from their website.

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FAST NOVA: more models, more possibilities. Compare multiple forecasting models and combine simulation results

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Energy forecasting with multiple models: what changes with FAST NOVA

In energy forecasting, each scenario may call for a different approach. FAST NOVA, the new version of MAS's metering and forecasting software, makes it possible to integrate several forecasting models and combine the results of different simulations.

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THOR, producer portal: everything under control in a single portal. Master data, schedules, unavailability, invoices

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Producer portal: how to manage relations between trading and third-party producers in a single environment

Master data, generation schedules, unavailability, invitations to invoice and reporting: with THOR, information and processes between trading companies and third-party producers are gathered in a single shared web platform.

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THESEUS: what happens if? Simulate it before you intervene. Compare scenarios, assess plants, plan the intervention

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What happens if you close a penstock? Simulating hydraulic network interventions with THESEUS

What happens to the network if you close a penstock, change a flow rate or bring an intervention forward? With THESEUS you simulate different operating scenarios and assess their effects before acting on the plant.

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QUE MAS, from draft to signature: create, quote, approve, sign. Power and gas offer management in a single platform

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Managing a power and gas offer from draft to signature: QUE MAS

Managing a power and gas commercial offer shouldn't mean managing complexity. With QUE MAS the whole process is run on a single platform: creation, quotation, approvals and signature.

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Renewable energy

What is a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)?

A Power Purchase Agreement is a long-term contract under which a producer sells energy to a buyer on terms defined in advance. Here are the main types, the benefits for both parties and what it takes to manage them well over time.

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Energy market

TIDE: the quarter-hourly revolution in power dispatching

With the Integrated Electricity Dispatching Code (TIDE), the Italian market has moved from hourly to quarter-hourly periods. What has changed for MGP, intraday markets and operators, and how to prepare to manage 96 prices a day.

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Rendering of a subsea energy hub connected to floating wind turbines

Renewable energy

The Subsea Collector: a step forward for floating wind

The Subsea Collector, the first subsea transmission system for floating wind, promises to cut the costs of a 1 GW offshore wind farm by at least 10%.

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Di-Hydro: MAS increasingly European

The European Di-Hydro project for optimising hydroelectric plants has kicked off: 13 partners from 7 countries, with MAS working on the modelling of hydro cascades and on optimisation algorithms.

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High-voltage pylons at sunset

Energy market

The Capacity Market mechanism

The Capacity Market rewards the availability of generation capacity to ensure the security of the power system. How it works, why it matters and what changes with the auction for 2028.

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Renewable energy

Bamboo: a new source of renewable energy?

Bamboo is an ecological and sustainable resource that, through fermentation and pyrolysis, can become bioethanol and biogas. Here is why its characteristics make it interesting for the energy transition.

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