energy42 - Energy Modelling Tool

Economic models

The energy transition’s co-optimising energy model, built by modellers and shaped around your decisions

energy42 is an integrated electricity, gas and hydrogen investment model which co-optimises investment and dispatch in production, storage and transmission across each sector, simultaneously. It draws on 25+ years of modelling energy markets worldwide, and adapts to the assumptions and questions of each project.

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Use cases

The questions you can answer

What gas market investment is required to support gas powered generation in the future?

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How does the system respond to unseen shocks, like a renewable energy drought or an unexpected outage?

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What is a new interconnector worth to the market?

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Why energy42?

Modelling software and advice from the same team.

The economists who build energy42 use it every day to inform their work for clients. The technology and support come from people who know both the model and the market.

Purpose built for energy market modellers, by energy market modellers

Utilising 25+ years of modelling building experience, our tools are robust and integrated from front to back end, avoiding messy add-ons and retrofitted features and workarounds.

Fast where you need it, detailed where it matters

Solve the full horizon in one go, or split it into segments or rolling steps. Segments run at the same time in the cloud, so long studies finish sooner.

Low switching costs

Bring your existing inputs with you. energy42 imports existing models from other software, making getting started easier for your team.

Built around your decision

Tailored to the question. Model the market structure, policy settings and technologies that matter to your project, rather than adapting your project to a fixed framework.

Security and data: your inputs stay yours

Work in private, cloud-based workspaces with access you control, and track who changed what, and when, with a full version history.

What energy42 does

Inputs to energy42

ElectricityDemand, costs and network
GasDemand, reserves and capacity
PolicyEmissions and policy settings
WeatherHistorical weather patterns

NATURAL GAS

ProductionTransportStorageConsumptionExport

Gas required for SMR H2 production

HYDROGEN

Production (SMR, PEM)TransportStorageConsumptionExport

Electricity required for PEM H2 production (up) and H2 required for electricity generation (down)

ELECTRICITY

ProductionTransportStorageConsumptionExport

And straight from natural gas: natural gas required for electricity generation

Three sectors in one model

Electricity, gas and hydrogen together.

Planning and simulation

Build, retire and dispatch in one optimisation.

Uncertainty

Many weather years and outage patterns.

Outputs from energy42

Investment · Build and retirement

Optimal investment plan: What to build, where and when, across production, storage and transport in all three sectors.
Asset retirement: When existing assets close, based on their costs and the value that they give the system.
Network topology: The nodes and links for each sector, including any new links that the model builds.