Dominion Power Play Use the power of simulation










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Dominion Power Play Use the power of simulation to predict the future Design presentation CS 410 –Black Team October 20 th 2016
Team Black Team Mentor: ’Max’ Siangchokyoo Addy Alago David Hescheen Jack Elder Nathapon ‘Max’ Siangchokyoo Nick Benfield Ryan Rusnak Stephanie Zeil Trai Corte
The Customer Dominion Power Dominion power needs a better way to analyze decisions and their impacts on specific regions before those decisions need to be made The system will be used by: • Dominion Power decision makers • Analysts • Players Our solution can be adapted for other industries with similar needs 3
• Decisions need to be made in response to events affecting regional power plants. • Results of decisions can take years • Adjusting decisions a reactive, instead of proactive process • Wrong decisions cost time and money The Problem
5 Other Challenges Decisions come with different perils Takes Time Testing Difficult Results can take Live environment decades testing impossible $ Costly Expensive and hard to reverse $ Mistakes Can Be Disasterous Manpower Fear Not Requires an entire team A solution is possible to research problem
To Build or Not To Build $1080 Gas $6108 $5098 Nuclear Coal Cost of building a power plant per MW • Decisions about building or retiring a plant can be influenced by many factors and have long term rippling effects. • A plant not built today may put you behind tomorrow. • A plant not unprofitable. decomissioned today may become 6
Current Process Flow 7
Our Process Flow 8
Our Solution Dominion Power Play Web Based Simulator www. dominionpowerplay. com • Users will play the role of CEO. • Players presented with realistic scenarios. • Decisions on resource allocations will affect simulated outcomes. • Outcomes will be studied and applied to real life scenarios. 9
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