We recommend that you first purchase a license for Power Market Simulator and test whether it meets your requirements before deciding whether to purchase the source code for the model or continue to purchase licenses.

The target groups for "Purchase license" and "Purchase source code + database + auxiliary tools" are:

Purchase of license:

• You will use PMS as a tool to gain practical experience with the electricity market
• You are a company that does not have an analysis model of its own,
  • You do not want to build an analysis group of model specialists
  • You want to be able to analyze future earnings for existing and new electricity plants yourself, without the use of model specialists and primarily using the data contained in the Strategirummet's version of the model
• You are a company that has an advanced market analysis model; but need a tool:
  • which can quickly provide answers to some questions
  • which can be used for screening project opportunities
  • which can be used for testing your own model
  • which can be used generally in the company by non-specialists

Purchase of source code + database + auxiliary tools

• You are a company that does not have an advanced market analysis model
  • you want to build analysis skills internally in the company
  • to collect and use own data for analyses
  • to be able to make your own changes to the analysis model
  • to market analyses, made with your own version of PMS

In connection with the choice between license and purchase, there are the following important points of attention:

• The Export/Import function in PMS is not intended and built as an additional database. The system has been developed so that the user can save the changes the user makes when analyzing a system that has the PMS database as its primary data source. The changes via Export/Import are saved in the Umbraco database in some text files. When you buy the source code, you can insert your own data into the PMS-sql database. You can then directly access this data with some sql queries. If you want to make major changes to the input data for the model, you should therefore purchase the source code so that you have direct access to the PMS database. This creates easier access and much greater security
• If you e.g. want to divide existing price areas into sub-areas for the purpose of testing, you can get by with the purchase of a license for PMS-Experimental. If, on the other hand, you want to use the division more permanently, you should buy the source code for PMS, because then you can save the division in the database and on the world map. This gives you e.g.the opportunity to load different profiles for electricity consumption, sun, wind and water in the divided areas
• If you have wishes for new functions in PMS or to change existing ones, you should buy the source code. The Strategirummet will continuously implement new functions in our version of PMS, but we only implement the functions that have a broad target group
• If you buy the source code, you also have to buy data from Enerdata yourself. You therefore decide for yourself when and how often you want to have your data updated
• The source code for PMS are well documented, and the model is structured so that it is relatively easy to take over the model if you have employees who know C+ and Java
• If you want to market analyses performed on your own version of Power Market Simulator, you must buy the source code

Here is a link to a standard agreement regarding purchase of source code + database + auxiliary tools.

If you want to investigate the possibility of buying source code, database and auxiliary tools, you must write an email to fn@strategirummet.com.