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Long-term planning
- Optimal use of water resources
- Price and inflow scenarios
- Stochastic optimisation under uncertainty
Optimisation of hydropower plants and reservoirs
Every cubic metre of water,at its highest value
IDRO Optimizer plans production for entire hydro cascades and calculates, hour by hour, how much to produce, when, and at what price to bid on MGP and MI. It respects every constraint of reservoirs, plants and pipes and keeps spillage to a minimum.
- Hydropower producers
- Energy manager
- Production traders
- Concession holders
Features
Inside IDRO Optimizer
A reservoir is an energy reserve. Getting the most from hydropower means deciding when to produce to earn the most from every MWh, while respecting levels, flows and concession obligations. IDRO Optimizer links the physical management of water to market decisions, with optimisation algorithms, including stochastic ones, and machine learning.
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Intraday optimisation
- Hourly production schedule
- Adjustment to operating and market conditions
- Fast recalculation when data changes
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Entry price and bids
- Entry price calculated hour by hour
- Quantities and prices to bid on MGP and MI
- Schedules sent to ERGObid for submission
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Cascade constraints
- Reservoirs: levels, minimum environmental flow, filling and drawdown rates
- Plants: power, start-ups, ramps, flow rates
- Channels and pipes: maximum and minimum flows
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Real-time monitoring
- Reservoir levels and inflows
- Unavailability and production constraints
- Prices and market swings
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What-if and deviations
- Simulations before deciding
- Analysis of deviations from the plan
- Assessments for concession renewals too
How it works, step by step
From water resource to market bid.
01 · Data
Levels, inflows, unavailability, constraints and prices arrive in real time.
02 · Plan
Long-term planning decides how to use the available water.
03 · Optimise
Intraday optimisation calculates the hourly schedule of every plant.
04 · Bid
Entry price, quantities and prices become bids on MGP and MI.
05 · Review
Metering and deviations close the loop and improve the next plan.
Why choose IDRO Optimizer
More revenue per MWhYou produce when energy is worth most, within the constraints.
Constraints always respectedLevels, minimum flows and concession obligations built into the optimisation.
Configurable without developmentThe algorithms adapt to every cascade without custom code.
The heart of IDRO SuiteIt works with MAIA, THESEUS, CAMPO and ERGObid on the same data.
IDRO Optimizer in numbers
A demo of IDRO Optimizer on your case, with data similar to yours. No commitment.
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2.500+ MWof capacity managed
30+cascades modelled
Connected to the rest of the value chain
Unavailability that updates the production plan
Schedules and bids to MGP, MI and XBID
Capacity committed in the Capacity Market
Plant data for the producer portal
01How does IDRO optimise a hydro cascade?
It calculates the production of every single plant so as to maximise expected revenue, within all the constraints set on reservoirs, plants, channels and pipes.
02How does it handle spillage?
IDRO aims for the lowest possible spillage: the economic optimisation is penalised by spilled water and by missing the target reservoir levels over the simulation horizon.
03Which constraints can it handle?
On reservoirs: levels, minimum environmental flow, filling and drawdown rates. On plants: available power, daily start-ups, maximum flow, ramps, minimum power or flow and binding schedules. On channels and pipes: maximum diversion flows and minimum flows by period.
04What is the entry price?
It is the minimum price at which it pays to offer a plant's energy on the market: IDRO calculates it hour by hour and uses it to build bids on MGP and MI.
6 modules
The products of IDRO Suite
Each module works on its own or with the others and shares the same data. Discover IDRO Suite
- You're viewingOptimisation of plants and reservoirs
Manages hydraulic systems as a whole and supports planning and bidding strategy with optimisation algorithms and machine learning.
- Maintenance and unavailability
Manages planned and unplanned unavailability in real time and reports it to Terna.
Discover - Third-party producer portal
Digitalises the relationship between trading companies and third-party producers in a single shared web platform, up to the invoicing request.
Discover - Production data and forecasting
Forecasts the production of every unit, own or third-party, with native algorithms or external providers.
Discover - Simulation of hydraulic interventions
Simulates flows in pipes and channels and assesses the impact of an intervention before carrying it out.
Discover - Capacity Market
Manages nominations, strike prices and bidding obligations in Terna's capacity market.
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