HOMER Front 1.6
New release
HOMER Front 1.6
Eight coordinated upgrades for more realistic, flexible market modeling.
A stronger foundation for BESS and hybrid-project decisions.
- Forecast uncertainty
- Flexible contract structures
- Multi-year assumptions
- Stronger dispatch control
Feature overview
Everything new in HOMER Front 1.6
Eight coordinated capabilities, delivered as one integrated release.
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Imperfect foresight
More options to build the expected production depending on the type of market.
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Multiple TOD contracts
Combine obligations and dispatch pathways.
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Multi-year participation
Vary market assumptions by project year.
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RT volume knob
Steer RT attribution relative to DAM.
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Ignore cycling cost
Explore accelerated cycling scenarios.
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Fixed block duration
Commit across complete bid windows.
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DAM display logic
Show DAM inputs only when relevant.
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Self-consumption
Model condition-dependent auxiliary loads.
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Market realism and structure
More realistic forecasts, contract structures and lifetime assumptions.
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Imperfect foresight
Compose the next 48-hour forecast from Week-1, Day-1 and DAM signals. DAM contribution can be adjusted or disabled, while forecast and realized prices can diverge to represent price uncertainty.
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Multiple simultaneous TOD contracts
Model multiple dispatch mechanisms and obligations in parallel. Allocate distinct energy shares and prices to each Time-of-Delivery arrangement, and separate dispatch by technology when required.
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Multi-year market participation
Vary Storage Throughput (Activation), Probability of Winning Auction and BESS capacity availability by project year, replacing one static lifetime assumption.
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Optimization control
More control over dispatch, participation and operating loads.
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RT volume knob
Set Real-Time market volume relative to DAM, guiding realistic energy allocation across markets based on available volume.
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Ignore cycling cost
Optionally remove the cycling-cost constraint to test more aggressive BESS cycling and an accelerated modeled break-even.
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Fixed block duration
Represent regulation markets such as FCR, where the BESS commits to the complete bid window, typically four hours, rather than participating hour by hour.
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DAM display logic
Display Day-Ahead Market percentages only when DAM is active, keeping inputs and results clearer.
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Self-consumption
Differentiate auxiliary consumption by temperature and BESS operating state: idling, charging or discharging.
Release foundation
Major stabilization behind the new capabilities.
A broad stabilization effort strengthens calculation integrity, market settlement, reporting consistency and product resilience.
Calculation integrity
Grid sales totals, export-limit behavior, C-rate and capacity values.
Market settlement
TOD allocation and penalties, aFRR Down and Reg Down expense.
Results consistency
UI versus Excel, decimal separators and production versus development alignment.
Product resilience
1.5 stabilization QA, security alerts and incident workflow.
Major defects removed+More consistent results=A stronger production foundation
Ready to explore HOMER Front 1.6?