PCI Energy Solutions, a leading provider of energy software solutions, is pleased to announce a significant milestone in its partnership with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to support the transition of the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) from coal to natural gas and ultimately to a hydrogen-natural gas blend. LADWP, which acts as the operating agent for IPP, is leveraging PCI’s integrated platform to manage end-to-end market operations for the new combined-cycle facility.
As the largest municipal utility in the United States, LADWP is playing a key role in operationalizing the shift toward cleaner fuels. With PCI’s platform, LADWP can seamlessly support IPP’s day-ahead and real-time fuel operation, tagging, and settlements, ensuring operational continuity throughout the project’s fuel transition, including the integration of a blended hydrogen fuel mix.
“This implementation with LADWP demonstrates PCI’s ability to support multi-fuel transitions and complex operational responsibilities across entities,” said Shailesh Mishra, Chief Commercial Officer at PCI. “We’re proud to enable LADWP’s day-ahead and real-time fuel operations, tagging, and settlement workflows for IPP and help power a cleaner energy future.”
As part of its broader PCI Insights initiative, PCI is helping clients modernize reporting by migrating from legacy tools to a flexible, analytics-driven data architecture. PCI Insights supports both embedded visualization through PCI’s Visual Reporter and external dashboarding via platforms like Power BI and Tableau, giving customers the ability to tailor insights to their operational needs.
Intermountain Power Agency (IPA), the owner of the Intermountain Power Project, is preparing to use PCI’s platform to support hydrogen blending and tracking during the upcoming commissioning phase of the new facility.
“We’re leveraging PCI’s platform to track hydrogen production, storage, and usage as we prepare for the upcoming hydrogen blend testing,” said Kyle Tran, Project Manager at IPA. “The system provides the real-time visibility we need to ensure a smooth transition from 100% natural gas to hydrogen fuel blend.”
This latest deployment — PCI’s Insights Data Warehouse supporting LADWP’s Tableau-based dashboards for operational and billing data —builds on the success of an earlier phase in which PCI helped IPA expand hydrogen storage tracking capabilities. Together, these efforts reflect PCI’s commitment to supporting its customers’ evolving fuel mixes, regulatory requirements, and clean energy goals.
Hear from Intermountain Power Agency
LADWP operates the Intermountain Power Project on behalf of its owner, Intermountain Power Agency, which also relies on PCI’s platform. In this video, Kelly Brook Thomas, Lead Fuel Gas Coordinator at IPA, describes how PCI Insights brought IPA’s fuel scheduling, power scheduling, and back-office operations into a single view.
About the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is the nation’s largest municipal utility, serving more than four million residents. LADWP is committed to achieving a clean energy future for Los Angeles through bold investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and zero-carbon technologies.
About Intermountain Power Agency (IPA)
Intermountain Power Agency is the owner of the Intermountain Power Project in central Utah. Project participants include municipal utilities and rural electric cooperatives serving portions of six western states. Learn more at ipautah.com and ipprenewed.com.
About PCI Energy Solutions
We empower energy companies to continuously optimize all aspects of energy production, trading, transportation, and consumption. We’re a tight-knit team of 300 diligent product experts, engineers, business analysts, and more, implementing software solutions in close partnership with energy companies from across the world — our customers literally keep the lights on. We’re based in Norman (Oklahoma) with offices in Mexico City (Mexico), Lima (Peru), and Sydney (Australia). Learn more at pcienergysolutions.com.
