HERON (Holistic Energy Resource Optimization Network) is a project to construct workflows solving complex resource allocation problems to meet target economic goals.

It leverages probabalistic analysis tool raven to run constructed workflows. HERON is a plugin for RAVEN.

Instructions for installing RAVEN plugins (including HERON) can be found on RAVEN's website.

See more on the HERON wiki

Publications

The following are a selection of technical reports, conference proceedings, and journal articles that may be of interest to users and developers of HERON, loosely in order of work performed.

Technoeconomic Assessments

• A Technical and Economic Assessment of LWR Flexible Operation for Generation and Demand Balancing to Optimize Plant Revenue
• Evaluation of Hybrid FPOG Applications in Regulated and Deregulated Markets Using HERON
• HERON as a Tool for LWR Market Interaction in a Deregulated Market
• Evaluation of Hydrogen Production Feasibility for a Light Water Reactor in the Midwest
• Economic Assessment of Nuclear Hybrid Energy Systems: Nuclear-Renewable-Water Integration in Arizona
• Economic analysis of a nuclear hybrid energy system in a stochastic environment including wind turbines in an electricity grid

Synthetic History Generation

• Correlated synthetic time series generation for energy system simulations using Fourier and ARMA signal processing
• Synthetic wind speed scenarios generation for probabilistic analysis of hybrid energy systems

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• Integrated Energy Systems