ADICA is committed to empowering individuals, companies, and nations in pursuit of sustainable development. Consistent with this goal, our staff has organized projects to address energy planning needs throughout Africa, Asia and the South Pacific, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Caribbean. Our approach to implementing national and regional projects is unique in that we both conduct insightful analyses and transfer our knowledge and state-of-the-art software tools for continued use by the client organization.

One of ADICA’s unique offerings is the position of serving as worldwide distributor of cutting-edge energy planning software developed with Argonne National Laboratory’s Center for Energy, Economic, and Environmental Systems Analysis (CEEESA), including the following tools:

GTMax: Generation and Transmission Maximization Model was developed by Argonne to simulate complex electricity market and operational issues, both for competitive and regulated environments. With the aide of GTMax, utility operators and managers can maximize the value of the electric system taking into account not only its own limited energy and transmission resources but also firm contracts, independent power producer (IPP) agreements, and bulk power transaction opportunities. GTMax worldwide clients include Multilateral Development Banks, International Development Agencies, electric utilities, government institutions and regulatory bodies, power merchants, transmission companies and energy traders.

Under a project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), GTMax was used in a multi-country assessment to evaluate the economic benefits of implementing a regional energy market (REM) in Southeast Europe (SEE). Upon completion of this study, USAID contracted ADICA to provide GTMax licensing and training for fifteen energy companies in Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro. This project was followed up by a study conducted for the European Community and World Bank under which GTMax is used to develop a Generation Investment Strategy for SEE.

EMCAS: Electricity Market Complex Adaptive System Software is designed to meet the growing need for advanced modeling approaches that simulate how electricity markets may evolve over time and how participants in these markets may react to the changing physical, economic, financial, and regulatory environments in which they operate. Agent-based modeling techniques in EMCAS make it possible to represent power markets with multiple agents (e.g., different generation companies and consumers), each with their own objectives and decision rules. EMCAS agents also learn from their previous experiences and change their behavior when future opportunities arise.

EMCAS is particularly well suited for countries that have decided to move from centrally regulated electricity systems to decentralized markets, which can use this tool to test regulatory structures before they are applied to real systems.  EMCAS simulates a wide range of market operating rules -- from those associated with a vertically integrated utility to those for a fully deregulated market operating under forward bidding procedures. To assess the potential influence of market power, EMCAS integrates optimal power flow computations with advanced market analytics. This approach accounts for critical locational and timing issues, such as the frequency and intensity of bottlenecks in the transmission grid, weaknesses in underlying market rules, and potential strategic behavior of market participants. With its unique combination of innovative modeling approaches, EMCAS is used to more fully understand and accurately model today’s dynamic power markets.

ENPEP: Energy and Power Evaluation Program is distributed for use in over 70 countries. The model provides state-of-the-art capabilities for use in energy policy evaluation, energy pricing studies, assessing energy efficiency and renewable resource potential, assessing overall energy sector development strategies, and analyzing environmental burdens and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation options. Under World Bank sponsored projects, ENPEP was used to conduct an energy and environmental review in Bulgaria and to develop a long-term energy strategy for Romania. Noting the need to analyze policy issues dominated by market reform, sustainable development, and global climate change, the European Union contracted an independent review of energy planning and analysis software utilized in Mediterranean countries. This independent review recommended ENPEP as tool of choice for energy planning in the region.