BelVis ResOpt VK combines income from resource dependent RES plants such as wind energy or photovoltaics with power controllable facilities such as hydroelectric or biomass CHP plants. This allows cost-optimal and 100% renewable power generation. Furthermore, controllable RES plants may also be brought to the minutes reserve market.
Gas transaction optimization
BelVis ResOpt VK maps the physical processes involved in the supply and demand of gas and exploits all contractual options for cost optimization, in particular imbalance settlements. Planned gas storage and the use of “network breathing” can also be employed, as well as exploiting the availability of switch-off customers or feeding liquefied gas. The BelVis ResOpt VK forecasting function takes the strong effect of the weather on gas transactions into consideration and ensures effective storage.
Multi-source / multi-commodity optimization
The model-based power plant operation planning procedure used in BelVis ResOpt VK is notably superior to rule-based systems, and results in correspondingly increased profitability. The decisive plus for the system is the fact that BelVis ResOpt VK is capable of representing all contractually relevant media such as electricity, heat, or steam output and all fuels such as gas or heating oil usage in its optimization model. Restrictions due to environmental obligations or CO2 certificates are taken into consideration. Operation planning ranges from individual blocks within a power plant through to multiple facilities. All common planning intervals, i.e. long, medium, short and current terms, are optimized in a single model. As a result, model maintenance effort is minimal.
Special case: waste-fuelled power plants
Operational optimization of waste-fuelled power plants demonstrates the flexibility of BelVis ResOpt VK, which is able to deliver outstanding results even in this special case. As the system is capable of modelling such a wide range of media, the behavior of the waste as a fuel source and the associated emissions, environmental obligations and logistical aspects can be integrated with ease.
Sale of reserve power
Power plants and pools of dispersed generation plants can, under certain conditions, participate in the reserve power market. BelVis ResOpt VK determines the optimum time window for power plant and dispersed generation plant participation in the control energy market, while simultaneously ensuring the remaining contractual obligations regarding power, heating or steam supply are met. In particular, bringing CHP plants and emergency power plants to the control energy market offers interesting options for supplementary income.
