US ISO Market Software
The most comprehensive Bid-to-Bill and ETRM Solution Available in North America
Automate and optimize all front, mid, and back office workflows for any market with the most widely used bid-to-bill solution in North America.
Built to support, automate and optimize all your market operations
Integrate, automate & optimize operations to increase profits
The PCI ETRM optimizes front, middle, and back office workflows unique to bilateral power and fuels markets, consolidating workflows into one system to save time and money.
Optimize
- Integrate natively with asset optimization, including Trade suggestions
- Guarantee the profitability of trades by knowing your break even for purchases and sales before you commit
Automate Scheduling
- Actualize trades in organized and bilateral markets
- Save time and money by receiving suggested bookouts and path outs
- Automate e-Tag and deal creation, enabling traders and schedulers to rapidly execute a high volume of deals
Automate Risk Controls
- Execute soft and hard risk control validations at the time of Deal Capture
- Automate risk compliance and streamline Middle Office Workflows to save time and money
Simplify Settlements
- Manage simple or complex contracts efficiently in less time
- Simplify invoice generations and validation with a user-friendly billing dashboard
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.
ISO / RTO Trading & Marketing
PCI GenManager® is widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive front office and back office software solution of the detailed workflows unique to every organized energy market.
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, previously RTO West
AESO - Alberta Electric System Operator (Canada)
IESO - Independent Electricity Service Operator (Ontario, Canada)
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.
Coverage for all US bilateral markets
Western Interconnection (WECC)
Texas Interconnecction
Eastern Interconnection
° SEEM - South East Energy Exchange Market
Choose the best solution for your Market
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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.
GenTrader® offers multiple modeling capabilities that provide near real-time decision support, forecasting, long-range planning, and analytics.
Bring your physical supply and transportation contracts together and get complete control over path selection, strike options and pipeline communications.
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.
Automate and optimize settlements and billing processes to save time, find discrepancies, and easily manage the changing demands of an increasingly complex industry.
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.
Bring your physical supply and transportation contracts together and get complete control over path selection, strike options and pipeline communications.
Eliminate the need for clunky spreadsheets and complex workflows and effectively track, calculate and verify all of your system megawatt hours.
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.
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.
Our Customers
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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.
Master your market
ISO/RTO
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
Bilateral Markets
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.
Deal Capture
- Speed up the entry of trades. See a deal and schedule it with the click of a button.
- Test for profitability by evaluating “what if” scenarios
- Conduct FIX trade captures and receive ICE pricing by interfacing directly with ICE
Scheduling
- Receive scheduling suggestions
- Automate the Deal to Market Instrument Workflow
- Easily checkout with counterparties
Risk Management
- Get feedback while capturing trades
- Keep track of credit limits with counterparty credit exposure
- Know where your stand financially with Deal Valuation
- Enjoy a robust Mark-to-Market solution (MTM)
Allocations
- Allocate settlement charge amounts to pre-defined buckets based on rules
- Run and distribute automated reports on settlement data or access it directly
- Quickly identify discrepancies
- Dispute, track and resolve settlements
Invoicing
- Easily create and approve invoices within PCI
- Connect to any general ledger system
- Automatically update counterparty credit exposure for middle office transparency
Native Platform Integration
- Receive trade suggestions from GenTrader® , PCI’s portfolio optimization module
- Convert a trade into a complex market instrument in PCI’s GenManager®
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.
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
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