myPower - Interactive Electric Power Planning Simulation
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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The following educational exercise is one way to use myPower and demonstrates many of the capabilities. myPower demo exercise & instruction.pdf Diverse participation and consensus building are needed to accelerate the transition to a cleaner and more efficient energy system. myPower engages executives and students alike in a hands-on simulation of your local energy challenge. An easy interface and instant feedback enables real-time discussion of energy alternatives.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.
Great care is taken to accurately represent your local electricity system, with transparent assumptions and data. Investments in efficiency, power plants and pollution controls are built using real world costs. System performance is measured against environmental, financial and resource benchmarks. The result is apples to apples comparisons of real alternatives.
It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.
myPower readily simulates many possible future scenarios. As in reality, balancing reliability, costs and environmental constraints is challenging. Diverse strategies are typically required, including investment in energy efficiency, pollution controls and new power plant construction.
myPower is ideal for public events, online forums or educational exercises. Contact MER to customize this program for your state or region. Clean-tech industry reps may contact MER to discuss adding technologies to the myPower database.
