Analytical Tools

TCR licenses three electricity and gas market modeling tools from its affiliate Newton Energy Group - ENELYTIX, GECO ENELYTIX and Gas System Optimizer (GSO).

ENELYTIX

ENELYTIX is an energy systems and markets modeling and analytics environment addressing the needs of stakeholders at a level of rigor, speed and efficiency not attainable with competing tools. It integrates a best-in-class power-system simulation engine with data services, scalable, distributed on-demand compute resources, and state-of-the-art business analytics tools.

Developed by industry experts, ENELYTIX delivers an advanced, highly scalable energy market forecasting, system planning and analysis tool for:

Resource adequacy planning
Emission policy and RPS compliance planning and evaluation
Security-constraint unit commitment and economic dispatch (SCUC/SCED)
Energy and ancillary services co-optimization
Co-optimized transmission topology control
Gas-electric co-optimization

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NewGrid Router

NewGrid Router topology optimization software is a powerful decision-support tool that helps identify operational solutions to re-route flow around transmission grid bottlenecks—essentially a Waze or Google Maps for the grid. The operational solutions meet reliability constraints, and consist of grid reconfigurations implementable by opening or closing existing high-voltage circuit breakers. The flow re-routing mitigates congestion, increases transfer capability by 5-25%, leads to increased market efficiency and reliability and delivers savings to ratepayers.

NewGrid Router finds effective solutions with system-wide search algorithms including both line switching and substation reconfigurations. It can identify preventive solutions that are secure against a contingency list specified by the user and corrective solutions to be implemented if/after a contingency happens.

GECO is the first of its kind modeling environment for realistic simulation and co-optimization of multi-day and intra-day operations of the electric and natural gas networks. Electric systems are modeled using an optimization engine performing Security Constrained Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch (SCUC and SCED). Natural gas systems are modeled using dynamic optimization of physical flows of gas within the pipeline network.

GECO ENELYTIX can realistically assess the physical impact of day-ahead scheduling and real-time dispatch of gas-fired electric generators on the operation of natural gas pipelines serving these generators. Similarly, the modeling can assess and anticipate day-ahead and real-time demand for natural gas of connected generating units and pipeline's ability to meet that demand day-ahead and in real-time.

With GECO ENELYTIX users can model alternative market mechanisms for co-optimization of electric and natural gas systems and markets. These mechanisms are based on the exchange of highly granular economic information between gas and electric systems. The development and timely exchange of such information is made possible by using realistic physics-based optimization engines both on the electric and gas side.

GSO

GSO optimizes dynamic scheduling and operation of a natural gas pipeline network. GSO finds optimal flow, delivery schedules and concurrent operations of compressor stations and line pack dynamics. In parallel, GSO determines the economic value of natural gas at any point in time and at any location on the network.