Technology Optimization
Selecting and implementing the right technologies is key to staying competitive in the energy sector. By analyzing market trends, technological advancements, and project requirements, we ensure you use the most efficient, cost-effective, and scalable solutions to enhance project performance and market competitiveness.
Production Cost Analysis
We model the operational costs of power generation projects in different market scenarios. This analysis helps forecast revenue, assess the financial viability of projects, and optimize operations to minimize costs and maximize output. With these insights, you can make better investment and operational decisions.
Grid Economics & Market Exposure Analysis
We provide integrated analytics that quantify congestion risk, curtailment exposure, basis volatility, and long-term system reliability across diverse future scenarios. Using hourly (8760) SCED and production-cost modeling, we evaluate how grid constraints, renewable output, storage behavior, and load growth shape deliverability and price formation. Our capacity expansion and resource adequacy studies co-optimize generation and transmission, assess extreme-weather resilience, and identify least-regret portfolios. These insights help you understand exposure, prioritize infrastructure investments, and build resource plans that remain reliable and economically viable.
Local Flexibility Markets (DSO)
We support you in designing Local Flexibility Markets (LFMs) that enable distributed energy resources (DERs) to provide services such as capacity deferral, voltage support, and outage mitigation. We develop end-to-end DSO frameworks—from use-case definition and pricing structures to governance models, interoperability standards, and regulatory alignment. Our approach blends power-system engineering, economic modeling, and policy design to create scalable, commercially viable flexibility programs. By grounding market architecture in system-level analysis and practical implementation pathways, we help clients move beyond pilots to repeatable, multi-feeder deployments that integrate customer-side flexibility and enhance grid resilience.
Large-Load Siting & Economic Exposure
We provide high-resolution siting and economic exposure analysis for hyperscale data centers, industrial loads, and other large-load developments. Using 8760 SCED modeling and scenario-based simulations, we identify optimal interconnection points, quantify impacts on LMPs and constraint frequency, and evaluate system deliverability under future topologies and load trajectories. Our methodology includes constraint heat maps, price-exposure diagnostics, and interactive tools that help clients compare POIs, assess flexibility strategies, and balance grid constraints with development goals. The result is a defensible, data-driven roadmap that reduces siting risk, informs financing and stakeholder engagement, and accelerates the path to operational readiness.
Integrated Planning & FERC 1920
We deliver integrated system planning that unifies capacity expansion modeling, resource adequacy analysis, and production-cost simulation into a cohesive long-term planning framework. Our multi-scenario approach co-optimizes generation and transmission investments, evaluates extreme-weather sensitivities, and captures the operational interplay between renewables, storage, and flexible demand. We support clients in meeting regulatory requirements for long-term, scenario-based planning, including regional coordination, climate stressors, and cost-efficient transmission solutions. The result is a transparent, defensible roadmap that aligns reliability, affordability, and policy objectives while enabling the seamless integration of clean energy resources.
Market Design, Rules, Tariff & Policy Advisory
We design and modernize electricity markets that balance economic efficiency, system reliability, and policy objectives. We translate policy intent into transparent, enforceable rules and tariffs, providing end-to-end support across market design, benefit–cost analysis, settlement structures, stakeholder engagement, and IT/OT implementation. Our team integrates market economics, dispatch engineering, and governance principles to ensure every market construct is operationally credible and technically feasible. Through structured methodologies and cross-jurisdictional experience, we help clients develop future-ready market frameworks that enhance transparency, promote flexibility, and support the evolving needs of decarbonizing power systems.
Energy Market Analysis in Action
Optimizing Green Hydrogen
EPE conducted a comparative study for StormFisher Hydrogen, identifying optimal GH2 project sites to lower Levelized Cost of Hydrogen (LCOH), improve project viability, and boost financial efficiency, positioning StormFisher as a competitive player in the GH2 market.
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Cassadaga Wind Dispatch Forecasting
EPE provided dispatch forecasting and market impact analysis for the 126 MW Cassadaga Wind Project, enabling regulatory approval under New York’s Article 10 Siting Process and showcasing the project’s significant CO₂ emissions reductions.
105 MW of Wind in Kansas
EPE enabled the development and acquisition of the 105 MW Shooting Star Wind Project in Kansas, delivering detailed curtailment and congestion studies to secure a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement and ensure grid integration success.
Mariah Wind Project
EPE conducted a detailed market and transmission analysis for the 230 MW Mariah Wind Project, delivering actionable insights into LMP, congestion, and curtailment to optimize performance within ERCOT’s competitive nodal market.
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