US Bilateral Markets
Maximize the profitability of your portfolio in US bilateral markets
Make more profit as a supplier of power within US bilateral markets with the most integrated end-to-end solution available. PCI enables bilateral market participants to rapidly enter data, enjoy straight-through scheduling, conduct forecasting, and monitor the profitability of trades in real time to make the most of their generation and financial portfolios.
Find new optimizations
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 Bilateral and organized 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
Coverage for all US bilateral markets
Western Interconnection (WECC)
Texas Interconnection
Eastern Interconnection
- SEEM
The most complete software for US bilateral markets
From deal capture to risk management to settlements & invoicing, PCI’s bilateral market solution offers time and money saving features alongside powerful integrations to other parts of PCI’s solution and the industry (i.e. ICE). Use GenTrader® to optimize your assets and provide trade suggestions that can then be automated through PCI’s ETRM and converted into organized market instruments or bilateral instruments.
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®
PCI Clients
We work to support a broad range of customers.
- Generation Companies
- Independent Power Producers
- Energy Providers
- Power Marketing and Trading Organizations
- Load Serving Entities
Expertise to support you in any market
Partnering for successful bilateral 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
- We understand and are experienced in WSPP and NAESB agreements and have codified that knowledge into software
- We monitor and respond to Organized Markets, NAESB WEQ and ICE changes and updates so you don’t have to
Tailored Software
- We’re acknowledged market experts and lean on our experience, and that of our customers, to create the best software available for US bilateral markets
- 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.
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.
Available solutions
- Automate and optimize all front, mid, and back office workflows with the most trusted and widely used bid-to-bill solution in North America.
- 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.
- 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.
- Eliminate the need for clunky spreadsheets and complex workflows and effectively track, calculate and verify all of your system megawatt hours.
- 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.
- 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.
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
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
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
"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
