Webinar: Inside Cleco’s Playbook: Driving Smarter MISO Bidding, Settlements, & Reporting with PCI Insights

Cleco Power, headquartered in Pineville, Louisiana, manages a diverse portfolio of eight generating resources totaling 2,700 MW in the MISO market. To keep that portfolio running efficiently, Cleco has deployed PCI Insights as their BI analytics and reporting engine,  giving their team real-time feedback on market operations and settlements across the MISO footprint. Here’s what we’ll cover to help you get the most out of PCI Insights for your own MISO portfolio.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

• Overview on PCI Insights
• Cleco’s experience with deploying PCI Insights as BI analytics tool to improve MISO market operations and build front-office and back-office reports
• Demo of PCI Insights use cases for Cleco
• Q&A

Who will benefit from this webinar:  

• Portfolio managers and traders: Learn how PCI Insights can be used to review DA & RT operations for your resources
• Back-office analysts: Use PCI Insights to review MISO settlement charge codes (around 100 charge codes) and key billing determinants for your portfolio (resources, loads, FTR/ARRs, bilaterals
• Management: Use PCI Insights to review DA & DART profits and losses for your portfolio and finetune bidding strategies

Whether you’re a portfolio manager, trader, analyst, or anyone invested in optimizing enterprise reporting, this is your chance to see how PCI Insights can capture your front-office and back-office MISO data to perform P&L analysis, diagnose MISO penalties, and validate make-whole payments for your portfolio in the MISO market.

Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, and you will receive confirmation usually within one business day. Registrants must register using email addresses issued by their employers.

Registration closes at 12:55 p.m. CT (5 minutes before the start of the webinar) on Thursday, Sept. 10.

About the presenters:

George Lamartiniere (left – Market Operations Strategist, CLECO) and Cody Carraway (right – Principal FTR Specialist, CLECO) and lead the deployment of PCI Insights at Cleco Power.  The Cleco team is currently using PCI Insights to provide feedback on market operations, drive better business decisions, improve operational efficiency, and build front-office and back-office reports. 

Khai Le (Senior Vice President, PCI Energy Solutions) has 50 years of experience working with market participants in RTO markets to deploy the PCI Enterprise Platform to automate their bidding, scheduling, settlement, and reporting workflows. Khai has conducted over 900 seminars on market-based operations, bidding strategies, portfolio optimization, and shadow settlements for utilities and RTOs worldwide. Khai received his bachelor’s degree from Harvey Mudd College and his master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University. 

Michael Schulz (Project Manager, PCI Energy Solutions)  manages the deployment of PCI Insights at Cleco Power.   Michael received his MS (Human Resources Management) from New School University, MBA (Entrepreneurship) from Ashford University, and DBA (Energy Management) from Walden University. 

Kowsalya Murali (Principal Software Analyst, PCI Energy Solutions) leads the development team for PCI Insights for all 7 RTO markets in the US (MISO, SPP, PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO, ERCOT, and CAISO). She holds a master’s degree in data analytics from the University of Cincinnati.