Maximize Revenue From Every Asset

Smart Power's optimizer handles hydro, thermal, renewable, and battery portfolios within a single coordinated model using mixed-integer linear optimization. It calculates feasible, profit-maximizing schedules that respect physical constraints, water values, and reserve obligations — across hundreds of units, multiple price areas, and all relevant markets simultaneously. The result is a consistent, high-quality optimization that no spreadsheet or single-asset tool can replicate at scale.

Mesh is Volue's own high-performance, object-based data management solution embedded in Smart Power. It provides a structured model for time series, asset metadata, constraints, positions, and calculation results — serving as the authoritative data layer for all planning and trading processes. Mesh powers pre-processing, post-processing, templates, and reporting, and connects directly to Volue Data & Forecast. It is accessible via gRPC, REST, and Python SDK APIs, enabling seamless integration with existing infrastructure.

Nimbus is Smart Power's operational user interface, purpose-built for production planners and dispatchers. It supports role-based workflows covering data validation, optimization execution, scenario analysis, and results visualization — ensuring that best-practice processes are followed consistently across complex operations. Configurable to match each organization's specific planning chain, Nimbus reduces the cognitive load on operators and gives them a clear, trusted picture of the portfolio at every stage of the daily planning cycle.

The Automation Framework enables full event-driven orchestration of planning, trading, and system interaction processes. Workflows are triggered automatically by configurable events — market price updates, new weather forecasts, TSO nomination deadlines, SCADA data arrivals — eliminating repetitive manual steps and reducing operational risk. With native support for Python and PowerShell workers, the framework can automate any part of the planning-to-trading chain, from optimization re-runs to order submission and position reconciliation. For fast-moving assets like batteries, this level of automation is essential.

Smart Power connects natively to Volue's full suite of trading execution applications — Ancitra for reserve market bidding (FCR, aFRR, mFRR), Auction Bidding for day-ahead and IDA auctions, and Navigator together with AlgoTrader for intraday continuous trading. These integrations transform Smart Power's optimization outputs directly into market-ready bids and orders, closing the loop between production planning and revenue realization. The result is a unified, end-to-end workflow from asset model to executed trade — without manual handoffs or re-entry.

The Availability Planner provides a web-based interface for defining, editing, and reporting revisions and operational restrictions across the asset portfolio — ensuring that optimization models always reflect the actual physical state of the fleet. The Marginal Cost module calculates the cost of flexible hydro production for each plant in a cascade, delivering accurate input for trading strategies and bidding. Together, these modules ensure that every optimization and every bid is grounded in the real operational constraints of the portfolio.