HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS MANAGEMENT

IDRO

IDRO is the ideal tool for optimization and hydroelectric power plants management.
IDRO web application manages cascades of hydroelectric power plants, simplifying the supervision and monitoring of hydroelectric reservoirs and facilities.
It supports the user in the production planning process and in bidding strategies, thanks to advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.

The software for hydroelectric plants IDRO provides accurate indications to maximize the economic performance of each hydroelectric power plant, in compliance with production constraints and availability. It generates a proposed hourly production schedule, taking all variables into account.

Additionally, IDRO optimizing tool supports users in their bidding activity on Day-Ahead Market and Intraday Market. It points out the top time to operate and suggests the best bid prices to be submitted.

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13%

Average increase of performance

+30

Modeled power plants

+2500

Managed MW

HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS MANAGEMENT – BENEFITS

Asset Monitoring
IDRO collects and stores real-time data about unavailability, constraints, prices, reservoirs levels and inflows, allowing for effective asset monitoring and time savings.
Long-Term and intraday optimization
Thanks to IDRO, the monitoring of market oscillations is simple and fast. Traders can smartly plan resource utilization in an uncertain environment.
Bidding Strategy and Entry Price
The hydroelectric power plants management tool IDRO supports the users in their offering on Day-Ahead Market and Intraday Market. It points out the best time to produce, as well as the most advantageous quantities and prices to be offered hour by hour.

HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS MANAGEMENT – FEATURES

IDRO is the ideal tool for producers and energy managers: with one single innovative solution, information about hydroelectric plants management can be shared in real time. The software IDRO maximizes the economic performance of every single hydroelectric plant in a cascade hydropower system, by supporting the following activities:

Planning
Variance Analysis
Stochastic Optimization
What-If Analysis

Thanks to the Capacity Market module (CAMPO), IDRO operatively and strategically supports companies who play a role in the Capacity Market, notably with nomination processes and forecast simulations.

Increased competitiveness in the energy market, higher efficiency of the production capacity of hydropower plants, and stabilization of market prices are some of the benefits of IDRO optimization tool.

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HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS MANAGEMENT – FAQ

How does IDRO optimize hydroelectric plants?
IDRO assures the optimization of cascade hydropower systems by calculating each facility’s production schedule, so as to maximize the expected revenues within the existing constraints.
Can I manage the overflows of reservoirs?
IDRO aims for the lowest possible reservoir overflow. Economic optimization of power plants is penalized by water overflows and non-compliance with the target levels of reservoirs at the end of the simulation horizon.
What constraints can I manage with IDRO?
IDRO controls several types of constraints on different objects of a cascade hydropower system, including: reservoirs (level constraints, water flow, filling and emptying rates), plants (maximum available power, number of daily startups, maximum waterflow, startup and shutdown ramps, minimum power or flow rate constraints, binding schedules), and canals or penstocks (maximum derivable flow rate, minimum flow rates over time periods).