Canada
Participate in Canadian ISO markets while minimizing costs and maximizing profits
Effectively participate in Canadian wholesale electricity markets with a solution built for North American markets and extensively implemented across the US and Mexico.
Expertise and support in the Canadian market
Partnering for successful market participation
We are a time-tested partner to North American energy companies in implementing customized software solutions with coordinated, expert support to guarantee long-term customer success.
Market Expertise
- We monitor and respond to changes and updates to North American markets and have the capacity to integrate with Canadian ISOs.
- We maintain a large team with significant expertise on the ground in North America and are looking to expand our solutions to support market participation with Canadian ISOs
Tailored Software
- We’re acknowledged market experts and lean on our experience globally to create best-in-class software
- PCI is a true enterprise solution, customizable to your particular workflows and to the demands of evolving markets
World-Class Support
- Experience a dedicated Client Services Group with an on-call Escalation Team
- Optional 24/7 support available where on-call Technical Analysts address concerns within 15 minutes
Available in Canadian markets
Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO)
Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)
Master Canadian markets
As the leading provider of software for power market participants in North America we are eager to support Canadian market participants, including those who participate in IESO, AESO and those who execute bilateral contracts. We have the capacity to tailor our software solution to meet the following needs.
Automate and optimize front-to-back office workflows.
Our ETRM saves you time and money by consolidating multiple vendors and spreadsheets into a multi-commodity trading platform.
GenTrader® offers multiple modeling capabilities that provide near real-time decision support, forecasting, long-range planning, and analytics.
Automate and optimize settlements and billing processes to save time, find discrepancies, and easily manage the changing demands of an increasingly complex industry.
Bring your physical supply and transportation contracts together and get complete control over path selection, strike options and pipeline communications.
Quickly coordinate real-time outages, conduct long-term outage planning, and configure your workflows to streamline your operations while meeting regulatory requirements and leaving clear audit trails.
Effectively plan, schedule and manage all grid outages while meeting NERC requirements with our comprehensive transmission outage management toolkit.
Experience a modern, intuitive user interface, time-saving automations, and dynamic visualizations from a system that has been operating reliably without interruption since 2017.
e-Tag+ sets a new standard for energy tagging software. It’s a functionality-rich and secure application that fully integrates with other applications to manage downstream workflows such as power scheduling, transmission operations, billing, and real-time balancing.
Solve the imbalance between generation and the interchange within the Balancing Authority in real time. Review the total interchange, total generation, and total excesses or shortfalls of energy, alongside solutions to reduce any imbalances.
Eliminate the need for clunky spreadsheets and complex workflows and effectively track, calculate and verify all of your system megawatt hours.
PCI Clients
- Generation Companies
- Independent Power Producers
- Energy Providers
- Power Marketing and Trading Organizations
- Load Serving Entities
Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)
Confidently Navigate the IESO Market Renewal Program (IESO MRP)
As Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) transforms the province’s electricity market with the IESO Market Renewal Program (MRP), PCI provides innovative solutions tailored to support market participants. Our fully integrated, end-to-end platform simplifies participation in the Ontario energy market by automating essential workflows, enhancing transparency, and optimizing operations across critical areas like the Day-Ahead Market (DAM) and Enhanced Real-Time Unit Commitment (ERUC).
From IESO capacity auctions to real-time energy trading, PCI empowers IESO market participants to adapt seamlessly to evolving IESO market rules. With PCI’s solutions, your organization is prepared to navigate the complexities of the Ontario energy market confidently and efficiently, ensuring compliance and operational excellence in a rapidly modernizing landscape.
PCI is your trusted partner for success in preparing for the future with the IESO Market Renewal Program.
A Global Leader
5 continents
PCI is the number one software supplier to energy marketing and trading organizations in North America and one of the most successful in the world with a presence on 5 of the 7 continents.
32 years
Since our founding in 1992, PCI Energy Solutions has provided streamlined solutions to complex power management problems across North America and across the globe.
70%
Among Fortune 500 Utilities companies in the U.S., 70% currently use PCI software. And more than 50% of all power generated in North America is optimized using the PCI Platform.
Proudly built on the PCI Platform
At PCI, we aim for our technology to hit the sweet spot between reliability, performance, flexibility and ease of use.
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
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
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
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