Energy Exemplar offers Aurora
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Aurora is Energy Exemplar's power market forecasting product for North American electricity price and dispatch simulation.
Aurora is Energy Exemplar's power market forecasting product for North American electricity price and dispatch simulation.
Aurora's positioning centers on simulation speed, transparency, and integration. Energy Exemplar documents a dispatch engine designed for parallelized, automated runs and states that users can inspect interim results while a simulation is in progress, including resource operation detail, marginal resources, inter-zonal flows, and reserve margins, to gauge how a data change affects outcomes. The application links to Excel, imports from other databases, exposes scripting and computational data sets, and ships with ready-to-run WECC, EIC, and ERCOT datasets refreshed yearly.
Third-party planning documents place Aurora among the production cost models North American utilities weigh: British Columbia Hydro's IRP advisory slides group AURORAxmp and PLEXOS, both Energy Exemplar products, alongside EnCompass among the models many utilities use in resource planning. Aurora's capacity expansion logic ranks new resource options by the real levelized net present value of their hourly market values, and it can apply emissions limits, renewable portfolio targets, and reserve margin constraints.
Aurora began as AURORAxmp, an electricity market simulation model developed by EPIS, Inc. and introduced in 1997 to model competitive wholesale power markets. EPIS distributed it to utilities, independent power producers, traders, energy consultants, regulators and universities for production-cost modelling, price forecasting and resource-planning work, and marketed it under the AURORA by EPIS brand.
Energy Exemplar acquired EPIS, LLC in 2017, adding the Aurora platform alongside its PLEXOS simulation suite and extending its presence across the United States and Canada. Aurora now sits in Energy Exemplar's platform line-up as a power-market forecasting application built for the North American market.
Demand for power-market and grid-analysis software is being reshaped by rising grid complexity. Fortune Business Insights attributes growth in the power system analysis software market mainly to the spread of renewable generation, distributed resources, electric mobility, and connected devices, and reports that North America, one of the most technologically mature regions, holds roughly a third of that market through continued investment in real-time simulation, long-term planning, and scenario analysis.
Vendor roadmaps are converging on analytics and deployment flexibility. The same research describes artificial intelligence and machine learning embedded for predictive fault detection, adaptive control, and asset optimization, wider cloud and hybrid deployment, and growing interest in digital twins and in platforms that simulate solar, wind, storage, and hybrid systems. Precedence Research reports artificial intelligence moving power software from reactive monitoring toward proactive control, with cloud or SaaS the faster-growing deployment model beside a still-dominant on-premises base.
Aurora is a power-market forecasting and analysis application within Energy Exemplar's platform. It produces zonal and nodal electricity price and dispatch forecasts and supports power-market price forecasting, energy portfolio analysis, optimized resource expansion and power-market risk analysis.
The application ships with ready-to-run North American datasets covering WECC, EIC and ERCOT that are refreshed yearly, and integrates with Excel, external databases, scripting and computational data sets.