Take control of your fuels
Bring your physical supply and transportation contracts together and gain complete control over path selection, strike options and pipeline communications.
The Perfect Compliment to Your ETRM
Manage, model and optimize fuels
Manage physical and financial transactions, transportation contracts and storage with software built specifically for companies that utilize natural gas, coal or liquids to fuel their power plants.
Manage
- Submit natural gas nominations for pipelines across the United States through a centralized dashboard
- Manage gas transportation contracts and integrate tariff rates, capacity, and losses for point to point and zone to zone scenarios. Auto-update rates when tariffs change
- Maintain coal supply contracts by shipment with the ability to capture quality adjustments and shipment related charges
Model
- Model full lifecycle workflows from deal to cash for natural gas, coal, and liquids, capturing intermediate points to reconcile with customer invoices
- Learn from industry-leading risk models including MTM calculations per deal
- Rest easy with counterparty and trader level limit monitoring
Optimize
- Optimize natural gas scheduling based on paths, available transport contract capacity, and the cost of delivered gas
- Streamline account close and invoice reconciliation with automated functionality to allocate cut volumes back to deals
- Benefit from advanced, comprehensive gas-electric coordination workflows
Software Built for Physical Power Companies
Fully integrate your fuels management
Unlike legacy ETRMs we focus on customers who trade physical power and fuels, so we clearly understand what they need and are focused on tightening the integration between gas procurement and power.
Powerful Integrations
- Integrate natural gas meter data including city gate and power plant meters for timely burn information
- Versatile deal capture includes timely, intraday or baseload, fixed and index priced
- Integrates with DA/RT power systems processes
- Supports back-office billing processes from meter collection through settlement with counterparties and pipelines
Intuitive Reporting
- Reporting that feels intuitive because it’s based on familiar Excel pivot tables
- Summary and detail reports that provide a clear overview of positions as soon as a movement is captured
- Easy export to Excel
Low Maintenance
- Only pay for and maintain functionality you need with software built for physical power companies
- High availability in a cloud-based, flexible architecture
- Continued support for disruptive technologies and market changes from a provider focused on physical power
Product Demo Video
An overview of PCI’s gas & fuels management system
Take a tour of our gas and coal management system in our software demo
A Gas Cost Savings Solution
1-2% of total gas costs saved
Cost savings from utilizing PCI’s Gas Management Solution range from 1-2% of total gas costs on average, depending on the size of your portfolio.
Be Connected
Support for all industry standards
Any organization can use PCI’s Gas Solution to help properly coordinate both gas nominations and Unit Commitment decisions associated with Day Ahead (DA) and Real-Time (RT) offers
NAESB
PCI supports the latest NAESB standards (3.0) and will automatically transition and upgrade you to new rules in the future.
Full-spectrum functionality
Includes gas deal capture with interfaces to ICE and NYMEX, bilateral confirmation and settlement, analytics and data warehousing.
Connects with 100+ natural gas pipelines out-of-the-box
Submit gas nominations to nearly all gas pipes in the US from one dashboard with one click via NatGasHub.
Implemented in the following markets:
North America
- CAISO (California ISO)
- ERCOT (Texas ISO)
- ISO-NE (ISO New England)
- MISO (Midwest ISO)
- NYISO (New York ISO)
- PJM Interconnection (PA, NJ, MD)
- SPP (Southwest Power Pool)
- US Bilateral Markets
- Canada (AESO, IESO)
- MEM (Mexico)