Wednesday, October 14 th
Conference Kick-off Event
5:00pm to 8:30pm
Stargazing Dinner Under the Tucson Sky!
Complimentary dinner for Attendees and Guests.
Join us for stargazing dinner under the Tucson sky at Oasis Wild Horse Ranch. The Ranch is a twenty-acre ranch that sits high above the city and is surrounded by lush desert. Built in the 1890&rsquot;s, the Wild Horse Ranch is the oldest guest ranch in the state. Motorcoaches will depart from Omni Tucson at 5pm. Dinner will be served under the night sky. Once the sun sets you can head up to the roof top to enjoy dessert and look through a high powered telescope of the night sky.
Thursday, October 15 th
Golf Scramble on the Omni Tucson National’s Golf Course
3:00pm to Dusk
Complimentary activity for Attendees and Guests.
Join us for a 9-hole golf scramble on the Sonoran golf course.
Nestled in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, the Omni
Tucson National Resort has been the home to countless PGA Tour and NCAA events including the prestigious Chrysler Classic of Tucson.
Selected as one of Golf Digest's "75 Best Golf Resorts in North America" and a Conde’ Nast Silver award winner, this magnificent destination retreat boasts two distinctly different 18 hole courses. This desert style course has two lakes and 69 strategically placed bunkers.
Dress: Collared shirts, golf slacks or shorts and soft spikes or tennis shoes. Denim and blue jeans are not acceptable attire.
Thursday, October 15 th
Four Wheel Jeep Tour
3:00pm to Dusk
Complimentary activity for Attendees and Guests.
For those adventurers out there, join us for a 4X4 Jeep Tour to see incredible Tucson landscape and landmarks. Come take this unforgettable ride and see Tucson from a exciting perspective!
Wednesday,
October 14 th
Introductory AURORAxmp Workshop
10:00am - 12:00pm
This session will provide an overview of AURORAxmp and the broad range of analysis that can be accomplished with this tool. It is ideal for new users and those without previous AURORAxmp experience.
Wednesday,
October 14 th
Advanced
AURORAxmp Workshop
10:00am - 12:00pm
Nodal enhancements
This session will include a discussion on benchmarking model results to market results, recent improvements to modeling marginal losses, and new options for reducing infeasibilities.
Recent model and database enhancements
This session will discuss major updates to the AURORAxmp model and database including: new web-scraping capability, other user-requested enhancements, more granular, generating-unit-level split of cycling resources, updated emissions data, updated new generation technologies and cost of capital assumptions, and so forth.
Maximizing performance in AURORAxmp
This session will provide recommendations and best practices for maximizing speed and productivity in AURORAxmp. It will include considerations in hardware, software, parallel processing, and intelligent AURORAxmp project setup.
Wednesday, October 14 th
AURORAxmp User’s Group Meeting
1:00pm - 4:30pm
Opportunity to influence the development of Electric Market Modeling.