Energy Planning

ADICA is an industry leader in providing Smart Market® strategic analysis software and decision support for energy companies and government agencies worldwide.  Our innovative software solutions, developed in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory, provide unique and valuable insights that enable our clients to succeed in energy markets.

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.

ADICA's 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 our customers. ADICA's Smart Market® software suite includes:

EMCAS:  is a Smart Market® software product designed to simulate how electricity markets may evolve over time and how participants in these markets may react to the changing physical, financial and regulatory environments in which they operate. EMCAS uses a new multi-agent modeling approach to simulate how decisions are made in today’s electricity markets, where several GenCos are competing with each other, both in terms of short-run operations and in long-term capacity expansion.

Independent reviews of energy industry software conducted by Deloitte Consulting, The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, and others point to EMCAS as a "best-of-class" solution for analyzing priority energy market issues. The software enables:

Regulatory Agencies to test market rules and assess market power thus protecting consumers from the payment of unreasonable electricity rates;

Electricity Suppliers to analyze alternative trading strategies and business practices to obtain a competitive advantage in the changing marketplace;

Transmission Companies to analyze the market impacts of adding new transmission lines or taking existing lines out of service; and

Financial Institutions to have a better understanding of the expected revenues from merchant power plants in order to make sound investment decisions.

GTMax: Generation and Transmission Maximization software simulates 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 was used in a multi-country assessment to evaluate the economic benefits of implementing a regional energy market in Southeast Europe. Under this project, ADICA provided GTMax software for use by fifteen energy companies in Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro. GTMax was also applied in a study conducted for the European Community and World Bank to develop a Generation Investment Strategy for Southeast Europe.

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.

The European Union contracted an independent review of energy planning and analysis software utilized in Mediterranean countries, which recommended ENPEP as tool of choice for energy planning in the region.