Webinar: Performance Insights to Optimize Profitability in SPP Markets+

Markets+ participants must navigate complex workflows and market dynamics while ensuring their actions translate into measurable benefits. Join us for the fourth and final webinar in our SPP Markets+ series, where we show you how leveraging PCI Insights can help participants validate performance, analyze profitability, and gain actionable intelligence to optimize their strategies in the new Markets+ environment.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• How PCI Insights integrates with Markets+ data to support accurate benefit validation
• Key metrics to track for evaluating market performance and P&L outcomes
• Strategies for leveraging insights to improve decision-making in day-ahead and real-time markets
• Common mistakes to avoid in post-market analysis

Who will benefit from this webinar:

• Energy traders and analysts
• Settlements and financial analysts
• Market and portfolio optimization teams
• Utility executives focused on profitability and efficiency

Request materials from our first two webinars in this series and register for the third on Feb. 20: 

• Request materials for “SPP Markets+: What You Need to Know for the 2027 Rollout”
• Request materials for “SPP Markets+: Strategies for Success in the 2027 Rollout”
• Register for “SPP Markets+: Preparing Your Balancing Authority for the Transition”

About the presenters:  

Khai Le: Khai Le is a globally recognized expert in market-based operations, portfolio optimization, and energy accounting. Over the past 46 years, he has collaborated with major utilities worldwide to implement software tools for portfolio optimization, ETRM, and transmission scheduling. Khai has authored over 125 technical papers, including 24 published in IEEE Transactions and IEEE CAP Magazine, with five receiving prestigious awards. His work bridges the gap between theoretical models and practical utility operations, providing innovative solutions to real-world challenges. 

Justin Shearer: After joining PCI in 2013, Justin initially focused on settlements calculations in the SPPIM market before becoming the SPPIM product owner. He later led PCI’s entry into the CAISO EIM market, supporting deployments for major utilities like Nevada Energy and others across the rapidly expanding EIM footprint. Today, Justin oversees all phases of the customer experience, from pre-sales engineering to solution deployment and ongoing success through PCI’s Customer Success Manager program. Prior to PCI, Justin held lead roles in quality assurance and financial services.