Aspen Utilities Planner™
A tactical and strategic advice system to improve utilities planning and site energy decisions
Aspen Utilities Planner uses production plans and schedules to develop a corresponding optimal plan for the purchase, generation, and distribution of utilities. Integration with site production schedules allows the production of tactical utilities plans and nominations to external utilities suppliers. Longer term planning facilitates annual budgeting for utilities supply and maintenance scheduling of utilities equipment. Aspen Utilities Planner is a core element of AspenTech’s Energy Management applications.
Features
- Calculates a utilities forecast based on current actual and future production demand, taking into account potential penalties, peak demand charges, and load factor clauses in contracts
- Creates an optimum utilities production plan based on the utilities forecast and within the constraints of equipment availability, emissions, and available gas and electricity tariffs
- Provides support for utilities nomination, CO2 trading, power trading, maintenance scheduling, contract negotiations, and investment analysis
- Evaluate design options for new utilities equipment and modifications of existing equipment to identify the most beneficial investment
- Quickly configure, evaluate, and estimate different scenarios compared to the current configuration
- Make best supplier choices by considering tariff structures, maximum demand charges, and punitive penalties
- A modeling environment incorporating a library of models specifically developed for utility systems, which can be tuned to reflect the actual performance of a unit on an operating site
- Enables graphical flowsheet construction and provides a powerful set of solution techniques for steady-state, non-linear simulation, parameter estimation, and data reconciliation
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Benefits
- Drive lowest cost of utility supply
- Specify optimal use or choice of fuels, boiler load allocations, turbine load allocations, drives with a mixed-integer, linear-programming optimizer to provide recommendations for the optimal configuration and load for the utilities plant
- Define accurate nomination of fuels and/or electricity and avoid costly penalties
- Predict emissions more accurately
- Integrate with your planning and scheduling systems to achieve better business alignment