What Did That Outage Really Cost?
DOTA AI runs a dispatch simulation with heat rates, fuel and unit constraints, following your margin method, to price outages in dollars.
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Asset managers, trading and commercial teams, fleet leadership
A unit can post 95% availability and still be offline when prices spike. The real cost is not price times outage hours.
DOTA AI runs a dispatch simulation with heat rates, fuel and unit constraints, following your margin method, to price outages in dollars.
From a question to a deployed app.
Ask
What did this outage actually cost, hour by hour, in margin?
Connect
ISO market prices, fuel prices, GADS events and unit constraints flow into DOTA.
Simulate
Target vs. actual MW by hour, with the lost-margin gap shaded and priced against LMP.
Compare
Availability against commercial availability, for any unit and date range.
- 95% available, but offline when it mattered
- Simulated dispatch, not simple math
- One storm day: 4,410 MWh and $1.21M in lost margin
- Availability 95% vs. commercial availability 82%
The takeaway
Measure performance in dollars, not just hours.
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