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July 24, 2008
PLEXOS Solutions Announces
“Principles of Locational Marginal
Pricing Training Course”

Sacramento, CA – PLEXOS Solutions recently
developed an advanced course detailing the
principles and underlying optimization
techniques for Locational Marginal Pricing
(LMP) markets including the CAISO.   LMP is
the basis for the CAISO Market Redesign and
Technology Update (MRTU) which will replace
a zonal market with a nodal one with over
1,700 pricing points.

PLEXOS Solutions LMP Training Course is
comprised of two, full-day sessions.  PLEXOS
software is used since it closely mimics the
CAISO MRTU software.  Topics covered in
this class include:

  • Market objective function and co-
    optimization of energy and ancillary
    services
  • Optimal Power Flow (OPF) and
    Power Transfer Distribution Factor
    (PTDF)
  • Security Constrained Unit Commitment
    and Economic dispatch (SCUC / SCED)

  • Mixed Integer Optimization (MIP) and
    Contingency Analysis
  • Priority constraint modeling utilizing
    Slack Variables
  • Locational Marginal Price (LMP)
    calculation and decomposition
  • Multiple Case Studies illustrating
    MRTU principles

Who Should Attend – Anyone who would
benefit from a comprehensive and
fundamental understanding of the MRTU
market principles and mechanics including
operators, traders, and transmission and
resource planners.  

Instructors – Drs. Tao Guo and Wenxiong
Huang who have over 50+ years of system
optimization and market-simulation experience.

Contact / More Information For more
information regarding this class or the
PLEXOS software, please contract Eric
Toolson, PLEXOS Solutions LLC, at
(916) 722-1484 or
etoolson@plexossolutions.com.
News
July 24, 2008
PLEXOS Solutions
Announces “Principles of
Locational Marginal
Pricing Training Course”

June 17, 2008
2008 User Group Meeting
Events  

January 22, 2008
PLEXOS Solutions
Announces Expansion
Planning Capability

November 1, 2007
Company e-briefing

September 11, 2007
PLEXOS Solutions Starts
CA LMP Forecasting
Service

July 31, 2007
CPUC Selects E3 and
PLEXOS Solutions for
GHG study

April 7, 2007
Company e-briefing

March 1, 2007
PLEXOS Solutions
Announces WECC
Database Release

January 17, 2007
PLEXOS Solutions
Announces Agreement
with Southern Company
Generation

October 27, 2006
Wenxiong Huang, Market-
Analytics and Risk Expert
Joins PLEXOS Solutions

August 14, 2006
Company e-briefing

May 11, 2006
PLEXOS Solutions
conducts first North
American User Meeting

February 1, 2006
Top Simulation Expert
Joins PLEXOS Solutions

April 12, 2005
PLEXOS Solutions Starts
Operations
Publications
September 28, 2007
Firm Previews Strategies,
Costs of GHG Emissions
Reductions
By ENERGY NEWSDATA

November 13, 2006
"Analysis of Market-Based
Price Differentials", CAISO
LMP Study, Dr. Jim Price
(analysis used PLEXOS for
unit commitment and
ancillary service
reservations)

July 6, 2006
Dynamics of GB Generation
Investment, part of the UK's
DTI Energy Review, see
www.dti.gov.uk.  PLEXOS
was used by DTI's
consultant as part of the
Energy Review.

May 24, 2006
Impact of Market Prices on
the Economic Feasibility of
Transmission Expansion,
IEEE PES Technical Panel
PN26, Market Simulator for
the Open Electric Markets

November 19, 2005
Description of
Methodology
, Market
Redesign and Technology
Upgrade, Locational
Marginal Price (LMP) Study
3C, California Independent
System Operator

April 20, 2005
Impact of Market Prices on
the Economic Feasibility of
Transmission Expansions, E
Toolson and A Sheffrin,
paper submitted to IEEE,
(analysis performed with
PLEXOS)

April 2005
Impact of Market Prices on
the Economic Feasibility of
Transmission Expansions, E
Toolson and A Sheffrin,
paper submitted to IEEE,
(analysis performed with
PLEXOS)

June 3, 2004
California ISO Transmission
Economic Assessment
Methodology, (comparison
of PLEXOS and ABB
Gridview)

April 28, 2004
California ISO TEAM
meeting, "PLEXOS Model"
presentation

September 15, 2003
Computing Competitive
Market Clearing Prices for
Ancillary Services
EUCI Conference on
Ancillary Servicesc
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