Benefit from market participation without risking your reliability
Solve the imbalance between generation, load, and interchange across the Balancing Authority area in real time. Review the detailed generation resource plan, interchange schedules, renewable generation forecasts, and ancillary services. Make informed decisions to minimize imbalances.
Monitor
- Monitor flex ramp to better handle increasing uncertainty caused by more renewable generation
- Determine how much transmission is available for real-time transactions and real-time market participation
Forecast load, renewable generation, and energy storage actuals in real-time, with advanced metering
Respond
- Bridge market operations and BA operations with an event-driven, low-latency system
- Visualize flex ramp and load forecast to respond faster and more effectively
- Easily resolve timing issues between market timelines and bilateral scheduling timelines
Reliable & Secure
- Over a decade of annual independent cyber security auditing and are SOC II Type II compliant
- Leverage the latest technology and system monitoring tools to ensure the healthiness and availability of the system
Product Webinar
Using PCI Transmission Scheduling to automate BA Operation
Take an in-depth tour of our Transmission Scheduling software with PCI Director Suiyi Su and learn how our Transmission Scheduling system creates efficiencies and improves accuracy by automating workflows.
Functionality
A comprehensive power transmission system
PCI’s power transmission system provides the following functionality
Balancing Authority Operations
Manage area balance, interchange scheduling and After-the-Fact checkout.
Manage, automate, and streamline the calculation and validation of generation and load meters, as well as interchange schedules in and out of defined areas. Identify potential meter errors.
Transmission Portfolio Optimization
Take full control of your transmission portfolio by automating monitoring, utilization analysis, and notifications for renewals, deferrals, and long term transmission rights. Optimize short-term transmission usage, identify resale and redirect opportunities, and estimate and validate transmission expenses.
Produce invoice and checkout reports for each transmission customer, shadow invoices received from other transmission providers, and integrate with any general ledger system.
Transmission Outage Management
Meet NERC requirements and manage all transmission outages while reporting them to one or more ISOs. Get a coordinated stream of outage event and status data from the field to the front office and ISO.
Enable full participation in current and emerging Western market constructs, including the Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM), Extended Day-Ahead Market (EDAM), and SPP Markets+, using PCI’s unified and regulatory-ready BA platform.
By the Numbers
#1 largest BA
PCI is used by the largest balancing authority in the U.S.
24-7 since 2017
Our balancing authority operations solution has been operating reliably and continuously 24 hours and day, seven days a week since 2017.
31 years
Since our founding in 1992, PCI Energy Solutions has provided streamlined solutions to complex power management problems
The PCI Platform
Built on modern, cloud-first technology
At PCI, we aim for our technology to hit the sweet spot between reliability, performance, flexibility, and ease of use.
Cloud First
- Scales up quickly with no loss of performance
- Distributed database maximizes processing capabilities
- We regularly exceed security requirements, lowering risk to your business
Reliable
- Proven to reliably handle the demands of energy tagging at scale
- Forward e-Tag data with no latency and no lost tags wherever you need it
Quick Implementation
- Easy out-of-the-box deployment means you complete your implementation sooner
- Painless software updates without outages or downtime
More time for analysis
"We're able to do our jobs faster and easier, and it just gives us time to focus on analyzing the data, instead of preparing data."
- Brad Lafler, Market Optimization Lead, Lincoln Electric System
Unified platform and team
"I think the fact that multiple departments can use the same tool, it kind of helps bring all of us together speaking the same language."
- John Mayhew, Senior Real Time Trader, PNM
Trust through transparency
"I see our PCI relationship more like a peer or a teammate than just a provider or supplier."
- Juan Guichard, CEO, Ammper Energia
Integrated suite of tools
"Having one vendor where all of those different tools and solutions work with each other, it just made sense for us instead of having a vendor to do this and a vendor to do that."
- Jason Smith, Senior Engineer, Santee Cooper
Rapid ROI realized
"PCI's integrated solutions have delivered significant cost savings and efficiency gains for Santee Cooper. Their tools and support have been invaluable to our business."
- Chris Moore, Business Analyst, Santee Cooper
Tailored software solutions
"If PCI isn't able to find a solution directly in their products, we work with them in several different capacities to come up with customizable solutions in their product. And those have worked very well, even through upgrades in their system."
- Tucker Smith, Sr. Market Coordinator, Basin Electric
Collaboration built on trust
"The bottom line is it’s an enterprise solution... everything comes together as one, so that it’s a much easier, supportable process as well as tool set. It has definitely saved us time... PCI delivers so that we can keep moving forward."
- Maureen Kempton, Sr. Manager, Salt River Project
Simplifying settlements, expanding partnership
"We've been able to file disputes with our ISOs and get some money back because we're able to see more data quickly. We've saved a ton of time, probably a couple of days' worth each week going through, looking at PCI data, and validating that way."
- Sara Quintana, Middle Office Manager, Guzman Energy
Upcoming webinars and events
Implemented in the following markets:
North America
- CAISO (California ISO)
- ERCOT (Texas ISO)
- ISO-NE (ISO New England)
- MISO (Midwest ISO)
- NYISO (New York ISO)
- PJM Interconnection (PA, NJ, MD)
- SPP (Southwest Power Pool)
- US Bilateral Markets
- Canada (AESO, IESO)
- MEM (Mexico)