A forum for the energy sector, around modelling and beyond
The User Meeting is PSR's yearly forum for the energy sector: planners, operators, regulators, consultants and researchers. Modelling is the common thread. Many work with SDDP, OptGen, NCP and PSR's other tools, but the conversation reaches well beyond them, into the problems those models are built to answer and the questions facing the sector now.
It starts with a day of hands-on training. After that come three days of plenaries, technical sessions and panels. Participants present their own studies, and PSR shows what has changed in the models and what's coming next. There are also talk-with-experts hours, where you can sit down with a specialist and work through your case, and an open session where requests from the room go into the development backlog.
The first meeting was in Rio de Janeiro in 2004. The seventh is in Manaus, in the Amazon, from 7 to 11 June 2027, with a field day on the river.
The largest rainforest on earth
Manaus sits where the Rio Negro meets the Solimões. The two rivers run side by side for kilometres, black water next to sand-coloured water, before they mix into the Amazon. All around the city is forest, with more species of tree, bird, fish and river mammal than anywhere else on the planet.
We chose Manaus because if you're going to spend a week on technical work, it should be somewhere worth the trip. Between sessions there's the river, the forest and the wildlife of the Amazon basin, and a field day to see them properly.
The subjects on the agenda
The agenda is still in preparation, with close attention to the most pressing and important topics in the sector. The subjects below are some of those presented at the last edition.
Energy transition and system complexity
Renewable integration, security of supply, resilience and decarbonisation, and how they shape the planning and investment decisions being made now.
Artificial intelligence in energy modelling
Reasoning agents, new ways to work with models and results, and building analytical tools faster.
Data centres and large flexible loads
Connection screening, hosting capacity, elastic demand, and how large loads fit into expansion and operation decisions.
Coordinated operation and integrated planning
Hydro flexibility, integrated generation and transmission planning, and representing renewable uncertainty explicitly in operation.
Transmission and grid-aware planning
Network representation, interconnection studies, dynamic line rating, and how other countries approach transmission.
Analytical workflows and automation
Structured time-series data, dashboards, running cases in the cloud, and keeping case versions in order when a whole team works on them.
The week at a glance
Five days with the people who build PSR's models: the developers show what changed in the tools this year, and the specialists have time set aside to go through your own cases.
Training
Hands-on workshops on PSR's models, for people starting with the tools and for teams that want to go further. The welcome reception is in the evening.
Technical sessions
Updates on the models presented by the developers, studies from users and panels with people from the sector. Talk with the Experts gives you time with PSR's specialists to look at your own work.
Field day
A guided boat trip across the Meeting of the Waters and into the flooded forest.
Session titles, speakers and times will be published closer to the date.
Your investment for the week
We're setting the fees now and will publish them when registration opens.
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