Model Usage
- Policy Assessment
Policies and objectives such as system costs, industrial and residential costs (electricity bills), emissions reliability and carbon pricing.
- Other
Modelling plays an important part in our Systems Planning group (Energy Supply Policy Division). We conduct quantitative analysis and detailed electricity system modeling to inform the policy development of initiatives to support key government objectives with respect to the electricity system.
Models Used
| Model | Outputs used |
|---|---|
| PLEXOS | The software simulates dispatch in the Ontario energy market,with a wide range of outputs possible and utilized,including hourly generation (by plant and technology type),emissions,market prices,imports/exports,transmission data,etc. |
