Optimize Investments and Dispatch Strategy Adaptive to Changing Conditions
Conventional Microgrid project planning is based on a system frozen in time, where all attributes never change even over the course of a fifty year infrastructure investment. Reality is much different however with new laws, changing energy prices, and new technologies drastically altering the costs and opportunities presented to the Microgrid during each year. XENDEE allows users to enrich feasibility studies and unlock new investment opportunities with more advanced multi-year Microgrid project financials that enable the accurate evaluation of financial and environmental changes over a project horizon.
Let XENDEE's unique bankability analysis capabilities generate custom-built solutions optimized to your customer’s exact objectives and needs with unmatched accuracy and speed.
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Intelligently Model Microgrid Changes Over Time
- Analyze a Microgrid Over a Dynamic 50 Year Horizon
- Determine the Optimal Investment Strategy
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Avoid Unnecessary DER Oversizing and Costs
- Secure Investment Capital with More Advanced Financials
Explicitly Analyze Eleven Distinct Energy Domains
- Electricity
- Cooling
- Refrigeration
- Water-Heating
- Space-Heating
- Natural Gas
- Diesel
- Propane
- Hydrogen
- Biogas
- Biodiesel
Design Resilient Microgrids Without Repeating Dozens of Different DER Combinations
XENDEE intelligently pinpoints which technologies will provide the technically and economically optimal solution. This gets rid of the need to run individual optimizations for each combination of technologies and allows XENDEE to consider the actual dispatch of energy by the Microgrid as part of its analysis to meet the needs of the project without unnecessary oversizing.
Maximize Value for Every Kilowatt to Unlock Investment Opportunities
XENDEE automatically analyzes your Microgrid at every time-step of the day to ensure the most cost efficient dispatch of energy resources.
Generate an Optimal Energy Dispatch
- Full-Spectrum Investment Decision Support from 1 to 50 years
- Sensitivity Studies Capture the Impact of Assumptions and Uncertainty
- Scenario Analysis Estimates Changes to Project Value in Response to Events
Rapidly Design Projects with Catalogs & Automation
- Validated Utility Tariff Database
- Building Load Shape Database
- Techno-Economic Vendor Equipment Catalogs
- Integrated Wind-Turbine & Solar PV Array Performance Simulation
Secure More Investment with Detailed Reporting
- Electrical Dispatch
- Graphical Reports
- Comprehensive Breakdown of Results
- Detailed Multi-Year Investment Decision
Faster Project Delivery
XENDEE gives you the ability to bring Microgrids to market faster and deliver business value over a project’s life-time. Our collaboration features help all stakeholders build a shared understanding of both the optimal business case and the optimal technical design and performance of a project.
Rapidly Optimize Designs
Generative algorithms automatically design the lowest-cost most optimal Microgrid system that meets your business objectives. No other solution considers as many value streams as XENDEE or delivers the technical rigor and deep-circuit power flow analyses XENDEE integrates.
Increase Business Velocity
Achieve your project investment goals faster and with higher quality results. With XENDEE, you are leveraging the output of over 10 years and $700 Million in research and development of Microgrid economic optimization and deep-circuit power flow analytics science.
Expert Mode Interface Offers Flexibility for Advanced Users
For experienced users, the interface offers an Expert Mode, which expands the modeling features available and allows users to define more complex and detailed scenarios, such as Net Metering utility programs, Zero Net Energy Buildings, and load shifting or outage curtailment.
Expert Mode also allows modeling of all details and turning-on/turning-off optimization constraints. Automated data processing and reporting enhance the expert interface to balance the complexity of detailed modeling in the Expert Mode with a User-Friendly design.
Value from Savings
- System Loss Reduction
- Reliability and Resiliency Services
- Energy and Demand Charge Reduction
Revenue from Energy
- Renewable DER Sales
- Non-Renewable DER Sales
- Battery Energy Storage Sales
Value from Incentives
- Feed-In Tariffs
- Regional Tax Credits
- SGIP-Based & Ancillary Services
Model A Full Suite of Distributed Energy Technologies
Select from a wide variety of wind turbines, multiple PV array mount installation types, and set the charging and discharging efficiency of electric stationary storage. Users can also specify the fuel type, efficiency, minimum operating load, and more for 50 conventional units, including internal combustion engines, micro-turbines, and fuel cells.
Investment Parameters
- Variable Installation Costs
- One-Time Fixed Installation Costs Per Unit
- Variable Operations and Maintenance Costs
- Fixed Operations and Maintenance Costs
Technical Parameters
- Lifetime and Age of Technologies
- Rated Capacity
- Fuel Used by Discrete Technologies (Natural Gas, Diesel, Biodiesel, or Custom User-Defined)
- Sprint Capacity and Operating Limitation
- Efficiency
- Heat-to-Power Ratio for CHP-Enabled Technologies
- NOx Emissions Rate
Catalogs and Processing
XENDEE offers a comprehensive suite of data catalogs for easy selection, importing, and processing. The user-indicated project location automatically updates both the load catalog and the site weather catalog selections for accurate modeling of the effects of location and seasonal variations on PV, wind and solar thermal performance. Wind power performance is calculated for a selection of over 100 models of wind turbines, using vendor-sourced information, giving you the edge you need in replicating the performance of market-available wind turbines.
Technologies and
Energy Management Goals
Integrated with XENDEE
Distributed Generation
- CHP
- Solar PV
- Fuel Cells
- Wind Turbines
- Solar Thermal
- Micro-Turbines
- Engine Generators
- Heat Pumps
- Absorption Chillers
- Boilers
- and more...
Energy Storage
- Battery Storage
- Heat Storage
- Cold Storage
- Electric Vehicles
Energy Management
- Load-Shifting
- Load-Shedding
- Load Scheduling
- Demand-Response
- Outage Fight-Through Resilience
Worldwide Site Specific Weather Catalog Data
- Worldwide Ambient Hourly Temperature TMY3 Data
- Extensive Data Site-Specific to the Location of your Project
- Based on Historical Averages Over Several Decades
- Multiple Load Profiles for each ASHRAE Climate Zone
- Built-in EnergyPlus Load Profile Catalogs for US Commercial Building Types
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Catalog Data Automatically Updates Project Inputs for:
PV System Rated Efficiency
Hourly PV System Performance
Hourly Solar Thermal Performance
Hourly Ambient Temperature - Utility Tariff Schedules Specific to Building Load and Type*
- Seasonal Fuel Prices for Diesel, Natural Gas, and Biofuel*
- Tabulated and Graphical Visualization of Inputs for Easy Checking
Test the Stability of Your Investments Against Changing Prices or Adverse Events
- Capital Cost Value for all DERs
- Fuel Prices (User Selects Fuel Type)
- PV Variable Installation Costs
- Electric Storage Variable Installation Costs
- Varying Demand for Loads Across All End-Uses
- Outage Length
- Outage Timing
- Technology Selection Options
- User-Defined
Results and Reporting
XENDEE’s automated reporting reduces soft costs associated with results analysis and streamlines result interpretation with organized tabulated summaries of cost and CO2 emission results that are designed to instantly communicate the feasibility of projects.
Easily Share Dynamic Financial Projections
- Table of Summarized Costs and Emissions
- Annualized Energy Costs
- Yearly Investments and Operational Costs
- Return on Investments
- Total Annual Electricity Balance: Full Representation of Production of Energy from All Sources
- Utility Balance Chart: Purchases and Sales From and To the Utility
- New Generation Technologies and Storage: Optimal Capacities
- New Investments: Capital Costs
- Dispatch Curves for All End Loads, Technologies, Day Types, and Months
- Configuration .csv File with Full Inputs
- Full Aggregated Results .csv File
- Etc.
Generate Meaningful Reports Designed to Aid Decision Making
Regardless of analysis types, XENDEE allows you to generate professional reports within seconds, and share them via many popular output formats.
- Full length professional reports are automatically generated, which give a detailed and complete overview of the system.
- Easy to read plots and tables are generated, which can be used directly for presentations/reports, cutting post processing time to a fraction.
- A number of XENDEE innovative Microgrid-specific metrics, which are becoming the industry standard, make you better informed of crucial technical and economic consequences of your investment.