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Use cases

Main objectives

In terms of power studies, the different fields of application Antares has been designed for are the following :

  • Generation adequacy problems: assessment of the need for new generating plants so as to keep the security of supply above a given critical threshold.

  • Transmission project profitability: assessment of the savings brought by a specific reinforcement of the grid, in terms of decrease of the overall system generation cost (using an assumption of fair and perfect market) and/or improvement of the security of supply (reduction of the loss-of-load expectation).

  • Generation and transmission expansion planning: rough assessment of the location and consistency of profitable reinforcements of the generating fleet and/or of the grid at a given horizon, on the basis of relevant reference costs and taking into account feasibility local constraints (bounds on the capacity of realistic reinforcements).

Reports using Antares

Antares is used by TSO and institutions for energy planning and decarbonation pathways. Here are some reports that used Antares:

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Antares is also used in the academic world for peer-reviewed articles and is undergoing active research and development .

What does Antares do and doesn't do ?

Antares models an aggregated grid and thus can't account for a detailed view of your area. Moreover, to have a fast conputation time per time step, Antares only consider a static regime with DC assumptions.

The goal of Antares is to give an optimized dispatch with a centralized planner with 1-hour time steps. So it cannot represent actor strategies.

You can see more of the underlying hypothesis here.