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PCI ETRM

End-to-end energy trading, risk, and scheduling in one system

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Bid-to-Bill

GenManager®

Complete market participation workflow from forecast to final bill

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  • Forecasting
  • Market Participation
  • Scheduling & ISO Integration
  • e-Tagging
  • Meter Data Management
  • Settlements and Billing
  • Bid-to-Bill
  • Forecasting
  • Market Participation
  • Scheduling & ISO Integration
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  • Meter Data Management
  • Settlements and Billing

Portfolio Optimization

GenTrader®

Maximize portfolio value with integrated optimization

  • Portfolio Optimization
  • Energy Trading Optimization
  • Energy Storage Optimization
  • Forecaster
  • Long-Term Planning
  • Sustainable Energy
  • Portfolio Optimization
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Manage transmission rights, congestion, and settlements
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  • Transmission Portfolio Opt.
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  • Energy Accounting
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  • Transmission Scheduling
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  • Transmission Portfolio Opt.
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Outage Management

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Plan and coordinate outages with built-in compliance

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A Global Footprint

PCI Energy Solutions serves utility companies, independent power producers, and wholesale power traders. We support customers in every organized market in North America and maintain a global presence across five continents.

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North America

50%+ of North American power is optimized using the PCI Platform

Latinoamerica

PCI da soporte al 90% de la capacidad de generación eléctrica en México

Europe

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PCI has a foothold in Europe with a growing presence

Australia

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Modern outage management  tailored to Australia’s NEM and WEM utilities

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ISO Bot

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Ask energy market questions of an AI trained on ISO/RTO manuals

M+ Bot

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AI assistant dedicated to up-to-date SPP Markets+ documentation

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Track, manage, and resolve issues 

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North American Market Software

The most comprehensive solution for North American market participation

Automate and optimize all front, mid, and back office workflows for any market with the most widely used bid-to-bill solution across the US, Canada and Mexico.

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Built to support, automate and optimize all your market operations

The PCI Solution for Trading & Marketing

PCI GenManager® is widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive front office and back office software solution for organized and bilateral energy markets.

Turnkey Automation

  • Automate all bid-to-bill, front and back office processes with PCI’s GenManager®
  • Create reusable strategies to quickly submit bidding positions
  • Generate pre-settlements and shadow validation of ISO statements and invoices

Meaningful Optimizations

  • Speed up the submission of bids and offers
  • Customize the user interface to each job function

Faster Reaction Times

  • Quickly identify and dispute ISO settlement discrepancies
  • React faster to market changes and portfolio performance
  • Easily access key data

All North American markets served on a single platform

CAISO - California ISO

° *EDAM - Extended Day - Ahead Market
° WEIM - Western Energy Imbalance Market

ERCOT - Electric Reliability Council of Texas

ISO-NE - ISO New England

MISO - Midcontinent ISO

NYISO - New York ISO

PJM Interconnection - Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland

SPP - Southwest Power Pool

° WEIS - Western Energy Imbalance Service Market
° *SPP Markets+
° *SPP RTO

Canada

° AESO - Alberta Electric System Operator
° IESO - Independent Electricity Service Operator

MEM - Mercado Electrico Mayorista - (Mexico)

*New West Markets: Represents integrated solutions for CAISO EDAM, SPP Markets+, and SPP RTO to support expanding Western energy market coordination. WEIM is also supported under this initiative, though it operates with a more targeted focus on real-time energy balancing.

Choose the best available solutions for your Market

  • Wholesale Market Participation

Automate and optimize all front, mid, and back office workflows with the most trusted and widely used bid-to-bill solution in North America.

  • ETRM

Our ETRM saves you time and money by consolidating multiple vendors and spreadsheets into a multi-commodity trading platform—all built and optimized specifically for ISO trading.

  • Portfolio Optimization

GenTrader® offers multiple modeling capabilities that provide near real-time decision support, forecasting, long-range planning, and analytics.

  • Generation Outage Management

Bring your physical supply and transportation contracts together and get complete control over path selection, strike options and pipeline communications.

  • Transmission Outage Management

Effectively plan, schedule and manage all grid outages while meeting NERC requirements with our comprehensive transmission outage management toolkit.

  • Transmission Scheduling

Experience a modern, intuitive user interface, time-saving automations, and dynamic visualizations from a system that has been operating reliably without interruption since 2017.

  • Settlements and Billing

Automate and optimize settlements and billing processes to save time, find discrepancies, and easily manage the changing demands of an increasingly complex industry.

  • e-Tagging

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.

  • Gas and Fuel Management

Bring your physical supply and transportation contracts together and get complete control over path selection, strike options and pipeline communications.

  • Energy Accounting

Eliminate the need for clunky spreadsheets and complex workflows and effectively track, calculate and verify all of your system megawatt hours.

  • Balancing Authority Operations

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.

  • Personalized Solution

If you are looking for a solution tailored to your needs, do not hesitate to contact us and schedule a call with one of our experts for a free consultation.

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Our Customers

At PCI we design custom all our products, processes and services according to the needs of each of our customers." to "Our products, processes and services are tailored to meet your needs

Utilities

If your company markets electricity or fuels, PCI will help you optimize all transactional activities efficiently and simply, based on your market’s criteria.

IPPs

If your company generates electricity, our All-In-One solution will help you manage all your activities from a single platform.

Federal Entities

PCI has tailored solutions for Federal entities that generate and sell power to utilities, municipalities, and other entities.

Municipalities

PCI solutions are design to serve municipalities in the United States that generate electricity for large cities or small towns.

Cooperatives

Our solutions can also serve community-based initiatives that generate and consume energy.

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Master your market

As the leading provider of software for North American ISO/RTO market participants we have a deep understanding of best practices across every market and have built software to support them.

ISO Communication

  •  Speed up data exchange between market participants and ISOs

LMP Forecasting

  • Create and organize LMP forecasts
  • Maintain a “similar-day” profile library

Bid Formulation

  • Develop multiple bidding strategies for any market condition
  • Automatically bid to reflect changes in fuel costs and heat rates

Bid Evaluation

  • Day-ahead and real-time bid analysis
  • Day-ahead adjustment period analysis
  • Bidding strategy P&L forecasting
  • ISO market award validation
  • Multi-case analysis

Settlement

  • Generate next-day preliminary settlements
  • Create shadow settlements and verify ISO invoices
  • Submit and track disputes


Expertise to support you in any market

Partnering for successful market participation

We are a time-tested partner to energy companies in implementing customized software solutions with coordinated, expert support to guarantee long-term customer success.

Market Expertise

  • Whether holding ISO round tables or attending ISO events, we make it our business to participate.
  • We monitor and respond to market changes and updates so you don’t have to worry about nasty surprises

Tailored Software

  • We’re acknowledged market experts and lean on our experience, and that of our customers, to create the best software available for any ISO.
  • PCI is a true enterprise solution, customizable to your particular workflows and to the demands of evolving markets.

World-Class Support

  • 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.
    “Customer Success” is our core cultural value.

Client Testimonial

"PCI is the most involved and experienced systems vendor in MISO. They’re excellent at making sure we’re fully prepared and ready for any changes to the market."

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"PCI's staff have been phenomenal. The people that have worked with us on issues and enhancement requests are incredibly responsive. The support our business and IT users have received has been absolutely unbelievable."

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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.

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By the Numbers

50%+

More than 50% of all power generated in North America is optimized using the PCI Platform.

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

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
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Unified platform and team
Trust through transparency
Integrated suite of tools
Rapid ROI realized

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Solutions

Energy Trading and Optimization

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  • Generation Outage Management
  • ETRM
  • Market Participation
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  • Portfolio Optimization
  • Settlements and Billing
  • Generation Outage Management

Transmission and Reliability

  • Transmission Outage Management
  • Transmission Scheduling
  • e-Tagging
  • Balancing Authority Operations
  • Energy Accounting and Meter Data Management
  • Transmission Outage Management
  • Transmission Scheduling
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  • Energy Accounting and Meter Data Management

Sustainable Energy

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