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SATURN for Generation Management

Transform your generation management with cutting-edge modern technology
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Smarter Generation Operations with
SATURN Advanced Generation Management Solutions

SATURN Generation Management solutions empower utilities and independent power producers to optimize generation operations, improve margins, manage risk, and meet regulatory requirements – all through a configurable, data-driven predictive analytics platform that streamlines short-term operations, mid-term operation planning, and long-term planning enabling smart decisions with confidence.

Noteworthy

Unrivalled Speed

Breakthrough innovation enables Production Costing and IRP simulations with speed – over 25x faster than legacy software.

Unprecedented Solutions

Performance enables unprecedented 100-draw 30-year hourly simulations for hundreds of assets – several times a day – no shortcuts.

Seamless Integration

Modern architecture enables seamlessly integrated generation management solutions – within minutes – all in one platform.

Reimagine
Product Costing

Performance redefined. Beyond fast. A new standard in simulation speed.

Advanced Computational Power

Harness breakthrough computational power to run advanced stochastic simulations and deliver reliable insights that drive confident, data-backed decisions.

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Reinvent
Resource Planning

Unleash speed. Leverage integration. Breakthrough performance.

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High-Speed Production Costing

Harness SATURN high-speed Production Costing to accelerate Integrated Resource Planning and capacity expansion strategies – enabling better solutions – with reduced efforts.

Rethink
Generation Management

Unprecedented performance. Boundless possibilities. Innovation meets integration.

Seamless Integrated Platform

Transform generation management with SATURN end-to-end seamlessly integrated applications that enable short, mid, and long-term solutions – all in one high-performance platform.

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The SATURN Advantage

Why Choose SATURN

 Discover how SATURN addresses the fundamental challenges facing energy and commodity companies today.

Generation Management Challenges

Limited functionality. Limited modeling details.

Slow simulation. Excessive simplifications.

Sub-optimal solutions. Counterintuitive results. 

One size fits all tool. Limited configurability.

Black-box solution. Impractical optimization.

Basic stochastics. Limited stochastic metrics.

SATURN

Sweeping applications. Extensive modeling details.

Extremely fast simulation. No simplifications.

Optimized solutions. Logical results.

Tailored solutions. Custom configurability.

Auditable solutions. Practical optimization.

Advanced stochastics. Extensive stochastic metrics.

Legacy Software Challenges

Onerous workflows. Protracted processing.

Basic reporting. Limited configurability.

Awkward user interface. Dated layouts. 

Long user onboarding. Difficult navigation.

Slow issue resolution. Novice support.

Too many bugs. Slow bug-fixing.

SATURN

Automated workflows. Automated processing.

Extensive reporting. Boundless configurability.

Intuitive user interface. Modern layouts.

Fast onboarding. Intuitive navigation.

Same-day support. Subject Matter Expert support.

Zero-bug policy. Same-day resolution.

Explore Our Platform

Discover the Full Spectrum
of SATURN Capabilities

SATURN Generation Management offers highly optimized, most detailed, and fastest production costing, integrated resource planning, and several related tailored solutions – all seamlessly integrated in one platform.

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Generation Management

SATURN offers breakthrough solutions that enable the most advanced, most detailed, most optimized, and fastest stochastic simulation of production costs, fuel requirements, revenues, and margins under various constraints and diverse scenarios with unprecedented speed.

Production Costing

  1. Production Management
  2. Fuel & Emissions Management
  3. Contract Management
  4. Financial Management
  5. Risk Management
  6. Operating Limits

Integrated Resource Planning

  1. Unrivaled Performance
  2. User Plans Testing
  3. New Capacity Requirements
  4. Retirement Requirements
  5. Generation Mix Requirements
  6. Budget & Area Requirements

Tailored Solutions

  1. Asset Valuation
  2. Asset Management
  3. Budgeting & Forecasting
  4. Contract Management
  5. Outage Management
  6. Day-Ahead / Real-Time
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Renewable

SATURN offers detailed modeling of Renewable technologies including tailored solutions for Wind, Solar, Hydro, Hydro Cascades, Biomass, Hydrogen, and other technologies – enabling accurate forecasts and smart decisions – with confidence – and unprecedented speed.

Technologies

  1. Solar
  2. Wind
  3. Hydro / Hydro Cascades
  4. Biomass
  5. Hydrogen
  6. Other

Modeling

  1. Production Drivers
  2. Power-Irradiance Curve
  3. Power-Wind Curve
  4. Energy Supply
  5. Energy Dispatch
  6. Curtailment Rules

Details

  1. Hourly Profiles
  2. Variable O&M Costs
  3. Fixed O&M / Capital Costs
  4. Forced / Scheduled Outages
  5. Energy Supply Variability
  6. Operating Flexibility & Limits
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Storage

SATURN offers detailed modeling of Storage technologies including tailored solutions for Batteries, Pumped Hydro, Compressed Air Energy Storage, and other technologies – enabling accurate forecasts and smart decisions – with confidence – and unprecedented speed.

Technologies

  1. Battery
  2. Pumped Hydro
  3. Compressed Air Energy Storage
  4. Superconducting Magnetic Storage
  5. Hydrogen
  6. Other

Modeling

  1. Reservoir Management
  2. Generate / Charge Optimization
  3. Operation /Ancillary Services
  4. Generation / Charging Ranges
  5. Storage Capacity and Range
  6. Cycle Efficiency and Changes

Details

  1. Cycling Limits
  2. Variable O&M Costs
  3. Fixed O&M / Capital Costs
  4. Forced / Scheduled Outages
  5. Look-ahead Setup
  6. Operating Flexibility & Limits
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Thermal

SATURN offers detailed modeling of Thermal technologies including tailored solutions for Combined Cycles, Combustion Turbines, Cogeneration, and other technologies – enabling accurate forecasts and smart decisions – with confidence – and unprecedented speed.

Technologies

  1. Combined Cycle
  2. Combustion Turbine
  3. Cogeneration CHP
  4. Steam
  5. Nuclear
  6. Other

Modeling

  1. Unit Commitment / Dispatch
  2. Energy/Ancillary Services
  3. Monthly/Seasonal Capacity
  4. Loading-Dependent Heat Rates
  5. Hot/Warm/Cold Startup Costs
  6. Ramping, Min Run/Down Times

Details

  1. Limits: Starts, Fuel, Emission
  2. Variable O&M / Fuel Delivery
  3. Fixed O&M / Capital Costs
  4. Forced / Scheduled Outages
  5. Steam, Consumables, Ash
  6. Special Operations & Rules
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Loads

SATURN offers detailed modeling of system loads, areas configuration, markets, transmission, transfer capacity, losses, and costs, and operating requirements – enabling accurate forecasts and smart decisions – with confidence – and unprecedented speed.

Loads

  1. Areas Configuration
  2. Zones and Nodes
  3. Markets and Fuels
  4. Grid Operator Rules
  5. Transmission Setup
  6. Transfer Losses & Costs

Requirements

  1. Area Requirements
  2. Zonal Requirements
  3. Nodal requirements
  4. Spinning Reserves
  5. Operating Reserves
  6. Planning Reserves

Details

  1. Emission Limits
  2. Generation Requirements
  3. Fuel Supply Limits
  4. Inter-Area Transfers
  5. Portfolio / Sub-portfolio Limits
  6. Special Operations & Rules
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Optimization

SATURN offers advanced and rigorous optimization, breakthrough performance, unmatched detailed modeling, and unparalleled advanced stochastic simulations – enabling accurate forecasts and smart decisions – with confidence – and unprecedented speed.

Optimization

Simulation

Details

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Business Intelligence

SATURN offers extensive modern BI capabilities that leverage modern technologies and empower users at all levels to make data-driven informed decisions and enhance business performance with unprecedented speed – on demand – in minutes.

Predictive Analytics

Visualization & Collaboration

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Reporting & Visualization

SATURN offers built-in modern reporting and visualization tools seamlessly integrated with all applications empowering users to quickly prepare reports and presentations – all easily configurable and dynamically updated.

Functionality

  1. Configurable Reports & Charts
  2. Aggregation & Filtering
  3. Statistical Analysis
  4. Documents Management
  5. Workflows Automation
  6. Emails & Notifications

Features

  1. Configurable Templates
  2. Quick Uploads & Downloads
  3. Personalized Defaults
  4. Configurable Dashboards
  5. Configurable Heat Maps
  6. PDF & MS Office Integration
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Technology

SATURN offers modern technologies and powerful frameworks empowering high security, data integrity, easy access, proactive monitoring, efficient hardware management, high availability, efficient scalability, easy extensibility, and cross-device compatibility.

Hardware

  1. Physical & Virtual Servers
  2. Shared & Dedicated Servers
  3. Optimized Grid-Computing
  4. Hardware Load Management
  5. High Performance Computing
  6. Enterprise Security

Software

  1. Authentication Management
  2. Authorization Management
  3. Multi-Threaded Parallelization
  4. Seamless Extensibility
  5. Continuous Monitoring
  6. Cross-Device Compatibility
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Parametrization

SATURN offers unparalleled markets parameterization, a critical functionality for inter-commodity/inter-market analytics and rigorous stochastic simulation empowering accurate forecasting and effective risk management – all in a configurable data-driven platform.

Forward & Spot

  1. Price & Vol Term Structure
  2. Price & Spread Min/Max
  3. Mean Reversion & Jumps
  4. Hourly Profiles & Volatility
  5. Pk/Off-Pk & Negative Prices
  6. Extreme Events & Vols

Correlations & Settings

  1. Inter-Commodity/Inter-Month
  2. Correlations Cleaning
  3. Principal Component Analysis
  4. Variance Reduction
  5. Calibration Timeframe
  6. EWMA & Decay Factor
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Notable Game Changers

1960s

H. Baleriaux and R.R. Booth published pioneering work on the simulation of thermal power plant operation with pumping stations.

1970s

Energy Management Associates released PROMOD, a software system that used the Baleriaux-Booth work and quickly captured a large market share.

1990s

Henwood released a chronological model that replaced PROMOD.

2000s

Aurora and Plexos replaced Henwood. All these models remain available today – old habits die hard!

2007

Abacus introduced SATURN and started to replace legacy models.

2009

Gartner recognized SATURN as a “unique offering.”

2023

Abacus released a new version with breakthrough performance enabling unprecedented generation modeling.

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