Encast v1.1 Released: Better Waste-to-Energy Modelling, Smarter Turbine Simulation, and Easier Help Access

Version 1.1 is now available, bringing meaningful improvements for teams modelling anaerobic digestion projects and gas turbine generation, plus usability upgrades that make it faster to get answers while you work.

What’s new in v1.1

Anaerobic Digestion: clearer inputs, stronger project confidence

Encast v1.1 continues to support robust anaerobic digestion workflows, helping you move from early feasibility to better-informed design decisions.

What you can do more confidently with the Anaerobic Digestion module:

• Model real-world operating regimes by configuring digestion temperature strategies (e.g., unheated, mesophilic, thermophilic) to reflect how plants are actually run.
• Represent performance uncertainty using percentile-based tuning inputs, useful when you’re comparing measured site data to expected yields.
• Build realistic feedstock portfolios by adding multiple feedstocks with practical details (type, quantity, units),supporting mixed-waste and co-digestion style projects.
• Plan downstream energy use by connecting biogas output to common utilisation pathways, electricity generation and combined heat and power (CHP) options included

Gas Turbines: more realistic operational behaviour for dispatch and CHP studies

Gas turbines are increasingly prevalent in the datacentre space- fast response, operational constraints, and performance that changes with conditions. v1.1 strengthens how these projects are communicated and analysed by supporting turbine modelling that reflects operational reality.

Key capabilities highlighted in v1.1 gas turbine modelling workflows:

• Operational constraints and setpoints to represent minimum loading and shutdown behaviours (so results don’t assume unrealistic turndown).
• ‍Ramp-aware operation to better reflect turbine response characteristics during changing demand and renewable variability.
• ‍Separate efficiency treatment for gas and steam turbine components in combined-cycle contexts, supporting more defensible efficiency assumptions.
• ‍Ambient temperature impacts (derating effects) so seasonal performance doesn’t get overstated during warmer periods.

Changelog (v1.1)

Modules

• Anaerobic Digestion
  
  • Continued support for temperature-regime modelling (unheated/mesophilic/thermophilic) andperformance calibration inputs to improve confidence in yield estimates.
  • Feedstock entry workflow supports multi-feedstock project configurations for co-digestionand mixed-waste studies.
  • Supports common biogas utilisation pathways, including power generation and CHPintegration.
•  Gas Turbine
  
  • Improved representation of operational constraints (minimum load behaviour, runtime/downtime concepts) for more realistic dispatch outcomes.
  • Ramp-awarebehaviour supports more accurate response modelling in renewable-heavy orvariable-demand systems.
  • Separateefficiency handling for gas/steam components supports clearer combined-cycleassumptions.
  • Ambient temperature derating modelling supports more defensible seasonal performance expectations.

Help & Documentation

• Added the docs link to the navbar dropdown.   
• Added the docs link to the footer.
• Added clickable help tooltips with a link.
• Updated patch versions of dependencies for ongoingimprovement.