Make sound investment and operational decisions with PROBE

PROBE’s advanced power transmission modeling enables the most detailed nodal market analysis, resulting in more accurate congestion, curtailment, basis and LMP forecasts.
Trusted by North America’s largest utilities, operators and developers

Conduct true end-to-end market simulation 

Predict energy market pricing and congestion

Assess the economics of renewable power and energy storage facilities or consider optimal transmission investments with PROBE’s production cost modeling capabilities.

Analysis for long- and short-term horizons

Plan strategically for future market conditions and immediate operational needs with comprehensive analysis over both long and short-term horizons.

Easily analyze output with visualizations

Access key outputs and compare multiple cases from annual or multi-year simulations in seconds, simplifying analysis and providing in-depth insights.

Key features

Market Simulation

  • Comprehensive energy market simulation for future grid analysis
  • Detailed nodal market analysis using robust transmission models
  • Automated generator screening function simplifies renewable curtailment and basis studies
  • Advanced security constrained unit commitment, economic dispatch, and energy storage algorithms

Market Simulation

  • Comprehensive energy market simulation for future grid analysis
  • Detailed nodal market analysis using robust transmission models
  • Automated generator screening function simplifies renewable curtailment and basis studies
  • Advanced security constrained unit commitment, economic dispatch, and energy storage algorithms

Transmission Models

  • N-1 contingency analysis
  • Monitor tens of thousands of flowgates during simulation
  • Export load flow models with saved demand, commitment, dispatch and transmission
  • Overrides for any hour of an 8760-hour simulation

Data Integration and Modeling

  • Provides simulation-ready datasets for all regions in the United States, built from EIA, NREL and ISO data repositories
  • User friendly and fully integrated with Excel
  • Complementary input data management software enables simple data changes and scenario-building

Visualization and Output Analysis

  • Provides key outputs from annual or multi-year simulations in seconds
  • Simplifies analysis and empowers deep-level insights
  • Ability to compare multiple cases

Simulation-Ready Data from All U.S. Regions

  • Confidently make stakeholder decisions across diverse market environments with accurate and region-specific input data compiled from EIA, NREL and ISO websites.

Discover the power of PROBE

Unlock potential with production cost modeling to predict energy dispatch and locational pricing. A full transmission model for end-to-end simulations provides short- and long-term solutions to optimize energy market and asset economics. 

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