HOMER Pro®, part of ULTRUS™ software from UL Solutions, helps our customers design renewable energy systems with actional insights and smarter microgrid design capabilities.
By combining engineering simulations and economic analysis, microgrids can be tailored to specific needs, such as village power, island utilities, grid-connected campuses and military bases.
Simulation capabilities
- Simulate the operation of hybrid microgrids over an entire year, capturing detailed performance data with time steps ranging from one minute to one hour.
- Evaluate all possible configurations of the equipment you’re considering, exploring every viable option.
- Receive in-depth insights into system performance, helping you make informed decisions throughout the development process.
Optimization
- Examine every possible combination of system types to uncover the most viable options for your microgrid or distributed energy system.
- Streamline the process for identifying least-cost options with HOMER Optimizer™, our proprietary derivative-free optimization algorithm for HOMER.
Sensitivity analysis
- Run thousands of simulations, enabling you to assess the impact of key variables such as global irradiance, fuel costs and load demand, all within a single analysis.
- Easily compare varieties of possibilities to understand how changes in external factors influence your system’s performance, providing deeper insights into your microgrid’s behavior.
- Identify the most resilient and cost-effective system configurations, optimize your design for current and future conditions, and balance your microgrid’s cost, efficiency and reliability.
Additional modules
HOMER Pro can be customized with up to 9 individual modules to meet your specific modeling needs:
Biomass module
For users who model systems running on most types of biomass feedstock and gasification process.
Model biomass gasification and biogas-fueled or cofired generators.
Hydro module
For users who model systems that include conventional, small, or micro hydroelecticity generation.
Specify the stream flow in the Hydro resource, either as twelve monthly values, or as an imported time series.
Combined heat and power module
For users who model building heating systems such as boilers, cogeneration, heat recovery, and any system that demands/supplies heat energy.
Model a building, an industrial process, equipment such as a thermal absorption chiller, and any other system that consumes heat energy.
Advanced load module
Users who create models with both AC and DC loads.
Model deferrable loads such as pumping or HVAC.
Advanced grid module
For users who will model grid-connected systems with varying grid prices, detailed grid specification, or off‑grid systems where grid extension is a possibility.
Model grid-connected systems with real-time or scheduled pricing, grid extension analysis, and grid outages.
Hydrogen module
For users who model fuel cells, remote off-grid operations, large industrial processes, or any system with hydrogen production, storage, or consumption.
Model systems that generate, store, and consume hydrogen.
Advanced storage module
Unlocks rate dependent losses, changes in capacity with temperature, variable depth-of-discharge for cycle life and increased degradation rate at higher temperatures.
Multi-year module
Model changes that can occur over the course of a project such as PV degradation, grid price escalation, load growth and fuel price escalation.
MATLAB module
Integrate your own MATLAB dispatch strategy with HOMER Pro. Experience total control over how you want your microgrid model to work.
“We are amazed at both the thoroughness of the software and the design complexity that it allows us to relatively quickly evaluate. To our knowledge, there is no other software on the market that matches HOMER for the purpose of designing renewable energy systems.”
Lisa Michael, Renewable Energy Systems, Anchorage, AK
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HOMER Pro is part of ULTRUS™ software synergy
UL Solutions created the ULTRUS software collection to help our customers solve challenges in product stewardship, ESG, renewable energy, learning and workplace safety. As part of ULTRUS, HOMER Pro software makes microgrid design smarter and is the global standard for optimizing microgrid design across all sectors. Our customers benefit from a common software brand for credibility, connection and clarity between our digital offerings.
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