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HOMER® Front
Utility-scale investment
HOMER® Front provides a powerful online web application that helps you more accurately and quickly model and optimize the technical and economic performance of utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), solar and wind.
Built on UL Solutions' trusted HOMER hybrid power optimization platform, HOMER Front delivers critical insights for project development, bid evaluation and due diligence:
System Sizing
Calculate optimal component sizes for utility-scale systems.
Determine the optimal size of energy storage, solar, wind and other components — whether as standalone, single energy resource systems or combined in hybrid systems.
- ✓Size energy storage optimally
- ✓Configure hybrid systems
- ✓Evaluate standalone options
Battery Management
Model battery lifetime and augmentation strategies.
Model battery lifetime, capacity degradation and augmentation or replacement strategies to minimize ongoing expenses and maximize revenue. Custom storage capability enables you to replicate commercially available batteries.
- ✓Track capacity degradation
- ✓Plan augmentation strategies
- ✓Maximize battery revenue
Revenue Analysis
Compare revenue streams for energy markets worldwide.
Perform detailed modeling of most major electricity markets worldwide. Evaluate power purchase agreements, capacity markets and ancillary services. Stack and compare multiple revenue streams and dispatch strategies.
- ✓Model global energy markets
- ✓Stack revenue streams
- ✓Optimize dispatch strategies
Separated Component Lifetimes
Set different start and end dates for each technology with intuitive graphical bars you can drag to modify dates and durations.
Flexible BESS Augmentation
Model scenarios without mandatory augmentation. Define a State of Health (SOH) limit for when the BESS system stops functioning.
Automatic Calculations
Automatic recalculations of functional curves, degradation curves, and temperature influences based on your input data.
Multi-Year Price Analysis
Simplified late-stage analysis with a single CSV file for multi-year price strips, enhancing your workflow efficiency.
Performance Improvements
Improved navigation, separate import/export pricing, and backend enhancements for system stability.
For project development, bid evaluation and due diligence
Utilizing the software's simple, intuitive interface and robust simulations, you get critical, actionable insights into maximizing multiple energy markets and revenue streams, and determining the most efficient system size, battery dispatch and augmentation strategies.
Stop utilizing inadequate spreadsheets.
Instead rely on accurate, confirmable analysis of multiple inputs of energy resources, markets, and dispatch and augmentation strategies that help you maximize return on investment while reliably meeting contractual obligations.
Intuitive Interface
Determine the winning system faster when you optimize essential aspects of your design with HOMER Front software.
- ✓Simple, intuitive web-based interface
- ✓Robust simulations and analysis
- ✓Actionable insights for decision-making
Trusted Analysis
HOMER Front software provides a trusted third-party model that helps partnering companies, financiers and customers feel more confident.
Interested in learning more about HOMER Front?
UL Solutions HOMER Grid is built-on the trusted HOMER software engine used by more than 250,000 energy professionals in over 190 countries, plus the independent engineering expertise of our large advisory team. HOMER software optimizes the value of your hybrid power systems and energy storage whether the system is standalone, grid-connected, behind- or in front-of-the-meter.
Products include HOMER Pro for determining the best, least-cost solution for microgrids; HOMER Grid for designing behind-the-meter, grid-connected systems that save on electricity bills, reduce peak loads, and lower carbon footprints; and HOMER Front to maximize project IRR in utility-scale energy storage whether standalone or combined with other energy resources such as solar or wind.
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