US ISO Market Software
The most comprehensive solution for ISO market participants
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.
Thrive in today’s volatile energy market
Automate and optimize your operations
PCI GenManager® is widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive front office and back office software solution available to automate and optimize all 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
° Markets+
° RTO West
AESO - Alberta Electric System Operator (Canada)
IESO - Independent Electricity Service Operator (Ontario, Canada)
MEM - Mercado Electrico Mayorista - (Mexico)
Master your market
As the leading provider of software for US 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.
PCI Clients
We work to support a broad range of market participants
- Generation Companies
- Independent Power Producers
- Energy Providers
- Power Marketing and Trading Organizations
- Load Serving Entities
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.
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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