Breaking news … SPP RTO market went live successfully on April 1, 2026. Engineering-wise, this was a BIG milestone since SPP was the first RTO to run a joint market optimization to optimize resources to serve loads in 2 BAAs (SPP East BAA in the Eastern Interconnection and SPP West BAA in the Western Interconnection), which are connected with DC ties.
In this webinar, we will illustrate how PCI Insights can be used to review a large volume of market data and provide feedback on market operations for your resource fleet during the first 2 weeks of SPP RTO go live.
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. Review whether SPP DA & RT awards & prices make sense for your portfolio of resources
- Back Office Analysts: Use PCI Insights to review SPP RTO charge codes (around 100 charge codes) and key billing determinants for your portfolio (Resources, Loads, TCR/ARRs, Bilaterals)
- Management: Use PCI Insights to review DA & DART Profits & Losses for your portfolio and finetune bidding strategies
Whether you are 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 SPP data to perform P&L analysis, diagnose SPP penalties, and validate make-whole payments for your portfolio in the new SPP RTO market.
PCI Presenters:
Join our team of experts as they guide you through the features of PCI Insights and demonstrate how it can enhance your reporting capabilities, drive better business decisions, and improve operational efficiency.
Khai Le is a senior vice president at PCI Energy Solutions with 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.
Ha Tran is the development manager at PCI Energy Solutions, where she leads the development for PCI Insights. She supports all PCI reporting and business intelligence tools using PCI Insights. With 17 years at PCI, Ha has extensive experience designing and implementing analytical applications to help energy clients validate and quantify their profits in ISO markets such as MISO, SPP, ERCOT, PJM, CAISO MRTU, and CAISO WEIM. She holds a master’s degree in supply chain management, optimization, and production systems from the University of Oklahoma.
Kowsalya Murali is the senior software analyst at PCI Energy Solutions, where she leads the development team for PCI Insights for the SPP RTO, MISO, and PJM markets. She holds a master’s degree in data analytics from the University of Cincinnati.
Brandon Scott is supervisor of the day-ahead and real-time trading desk at Colorado Springs Utilities which manages power trading and environmental products trading. He has a background in production cost modeling and forecasting in addition to his experience on the desk as a merchant. He started his career in Utilities as an analyst doing technical modeling, budgeting, and federal reporting and then moved to fuels trading as a natural gas scheduler, traded fuels, then moved over to the dark side. He has been in the industry for 15 years.