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  • Optimize Operations

    Optimize Operations

    Company

    Medium-size energy provider that serves customers in West Texas and Southern New Mexico.

    Challenge

    Optimize short-term operating plan for next 5-7 days including unit commitment, economic dispatch, outage planning, fuel management, and short-term trading.

    SATURN

    • Provided improved modeling of operational constraints that lower operating costs.
    • Enabled rapid setup, comprehensive what-if scenario modeling, and extensive sensitivity analysis.
    • Established cross-department collaboration and enabled online coordination.

    Impact

    • Reduced operating costs by 3 to 5% across several months.
    • Improved staff productivity and empowered team with on-demand solutions.
    • Facilitated coordination with trading team and enabled more effective trading.

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  • Retail Management for Load Aggregator

    Retail Management for Load Aggregator

    Company

    A small company providing energy to residential and business customers across 4 ISOs in the US.

    Challenge

    Streamline straight-through solutions for product design, pricing, supply costing, margin analysis, risk management, headroom analysis, and competitive positioning.

    SATURN

    • Enabled structuring, costing, and pricing highly customized products and offerings across multiple regions and customer types.
    • Facilitated power supply optimization and enabled on-going updates based on customers acquisition and attrition.
    • Empowered the risk manager with advanced risk management capabilities and enabled effective hedging strategies.

    Impact

    • Saved staff time and empowered team with advanced and integrated on-demand solutions – in minutes.
    • Enabled advanced headroom analysis, competitive positioning, effective product design, and dynamic pricing.
    • Eliminated operational bottlenecks and replaced inefficient EXCEL data management with online streamlined capabilities.

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  • Optimize Operation Planning

    Optimize Operation Planning

    Company

    Large integrated energy company in Scotland that operates a portfolio of diverse generation assets.

    Challenge

    Optimize operation plans to maximize margins subject to strict emission limits for a portfolio of diverse assets that include coal, gas, oil, hydro, and pumped hydro storage plants.

    SATURN

    • Implemented advanced optimization and stochastic simulation and enabled reliable production forecasts.
    • Enabled optimized operation planning under limiting constraints and associated costs, fuel use, and emissions.
    • Streamlined reporting, data visualization, fast simulations, and enabled extensive what-if analysis.

    Impact

    • Enabled optimized modeling of complex generation fleet and reduced operating costs.
    • Empowered on-demand analysis, fast simulations, and quick reporting and saved staff time
    • Automated workflows, enabled detailed reporting, and empowered confident decision-making.

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  • Optimize Hydro Cascades Operation

    Optimize Hydro Cascades Operation

    Company

    An energy company operating hydro cascade power plants in Scandinavia, Europe.

    Challenge

    Optimize operation planning for a set of interconnected hydro plants with several reservoirs under supply uncertainty, operational requirements, and price volatility.

    SATURN

    • Implemented advanced modeling of a network of interconnected hydro plants and storage reservoirs.
    • Enabled the development of improved operating plans that offer effective water utilization and increased margins.
    • Streamlined and integrated data setup, simulation, reporting, data visualization, workflows, and documentation.

    Impact

    • Improved operation planning and increased margins by over 10%.
    • Eliminated reporting bottlenecks, saved staff time, and integrated workflows.
    • Empowered advanced more detailed modeling and reduced simulation times.

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  • Model Oil Shale Production Planning

    Model Oil Shale Production Planning

    Company

    Energy company operating power production using oil shale extracted from local mines.

    Challenge

    Optimize the combined generation of electricity and steam using oil shale under various operational constraints and market price volatility and uncertainty.

    SATURN

    • Modeled one of the most complicated multi-product operating systems including oil shale, fuels, heat, and power.
    • Simulated correlated market prices and co-optimized multi-product operations for various market and operating conditions.
    • Empowered fast simulation and optimization, streamlined data setup and analysis, and provided on-demand reporting.

    Impact

    • Developed optimized framework for complex multi-product operations.
    • Enabled integrating advanced stochastic simulation with multi-product co-optimization.
    • Identified operation plans that reduce costs and manage risks.

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  • Model the Italian Power System

    Model the Italian Power System

    Company

    Energy company operating a set of diverse generation units in Italy.

    Challenge

    Model the operation of Italy’s generation plants interconnected by a complex system of transmission network including cross-border transfers with neighboring countries.

    SATURN

    • Modeled optimized operations of Italy’s generation plants and interregional and cross-border energy transfers.
    • Enabled detailed generation and transmission modeling, fast simulation, and advanced optimization.
    • Empowered integrated generation-transmission modeling for operation planning and long-term planning.

    Impact

    • Developed optimized generation framework including inter-regional and cross-border transfers.
    • Enabled detailed modeling of a fleet of diverse generation plants and complex inter-regional transmission.
    • Provided regional and inter-regional metrics that enable fast vetting of optimized solutions.

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  • Optimize Power Sale Agreement

    Optimize Power Sale Agreement

    Company

    Large energy company that operates oil refineries in Northern and Southern California.

    Challenge

    Structure power sale agreement to maximize margins by selling surplus power while maintaining primary focus of meeting the power and steam needs of company refinery.

    SATURN

    • Developed re-usable framework to analyze and compare alternative power sale agreements with local utility and trading firms.
    • Streamlined market price simulation, optimized refinery operation, power sale analysis, and margin and risk management
    • Enabled cross-departments coordination, online results review, on-demand reporting, improved margins, and reduced risks.

    Impact

    • Structured improved power sale agreement that adds over 10 million dollars per year to the bottom line of one refinery.
    • Saved staff time, improved organization skills, and enabled cross-departments collaboration.
    • Empowered advanced optimization of refinery operation that enabled improved analysis of plant modernization.

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  • Market Analysis for Large Integrated Company

    Market Analysis for Large Integrated Company

    Company

    Large energy company with oil refineries in several states in the US.

    Challenge

    Provide custom automated early morning report with updated market prices and trading indicators providing key metrics for trends, momentum, and volatility.

    SATURN

    • Deployed streamlined and automated daily market analysis capability offering updated market prices and technical indicators.
    • Customized reporting and data visualization to meet specific needs for multiple power and gas markets across 5 ISOs.
    • Established widely used Daily Morning Report that quickly became a key enabler of efficient business management.

    Impact

    • Eliminated inefficient EXCEL data management processing and replaced manual data entry with automated processing.
    • Enabled data-driven insights that facilitated effective trading, risk management, hedging, and position management.
    • Saved staff time across several departments, enriched organization skills, and streamlined new staff onboarding.

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  • Forecasting and Position Management

    Forecasting and Position Management

    Company

    Integrated company operating a fleet of diverse generation assets in eastern Texas.

    Challenge

    Develop short and long-term operating plans to meet customer demand subject to state and federal regulations including FERC, NERC, and Texas PUC.

    SATURN

    • Implemented market calibration that derives simulation parameters and enables reliable market price forecasts.
    • Integrated market price simulation, generation optimization, load analysis, trading, and position management.
    • Empowered advanced stochastic simulation of generation production, costs, and margins.

    Impact

    • Empowered same-day analysis of management requests and enabled decision-making with confidence.
    • Automated customized daily reports for analysts, managers, and executives.
    • Streamlined data setup, reports visualization, and cross-departments collaboration.

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  • Market Analytics for Advisory Firm

    Market Analytics for Advisory Firm

    Company

    Advisory company that offers insights and strategic guidance to investors and hedging firms.

    Challenge

    Provide custom automated early morning report with updated market prices and technical indicators providing key metrics for trends, momentum, and volatility.

    SATURN

    • Developed an automated market analysis capability that offers daily updates of market technical indicators.
    • Customized process and reporting to meet advisory firm specific needs for multiple power and fuel markets across 4 ISOs.
    • Empowered highly efficient analysis of market movements and their impacts on financial metrics of advisory firm clients.

    Impact

    • Eliminated time-consuming data manipulation and spreadsheet processing.
    • Provided data-driven insights and enabled more informed analysis and updates.
    • Empowered reliable financial forecasts using detailed market indicators.

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