Simplify and automate your outage management process
Quickly coordinate real-time generation outages, conduct long-term outage planning and configure your workflows to streamline your operations. And do it all while meeting regulatory requirements and generating clear audit trails.
Modernize
Manage outages in less time and
with fewer errors
Built to simplify and modernize outage processes, making them transparent to plant operators, easy to track and audit, and sustainable by your organization for the long term.
Streamline Operations
- Forced outage automation monitors EMS/PI Systems to quickly create and auto-submit outages to eliminate compliance risks
- Manage the entire outage lifecycle, from field crew to outage coordinators
- Automatically submit and sync with market operators and regulatory authorities
Improved Planning
- Visually plan and review operational & long term outages
- Validate outage overlaps, create and enforce business rules
- Easily record operating events for anytime-access and auditing
- Calculate impact of physical unit outages on logical configurations
- Interface with NERC GADS to track KPIs and drive planning
Business Intelligence
- End to End ambient derate automation
- Analyze historical outage and plant performance to drive business decisions
- Dashboards with evolving widgets that aggregate outage information
- Use AI/ML to auto create events and adjust manually entered events for accuracy
- Easily conform to all ISO/RTO and NERC data requirements
Product Webinar
How OG&E automates outage management using PCI
Learn from Richard Owen, Supervisor of Market Operations at Oklahoma Gas and Electric, how OG&E updated their outage management workflow and generated considerable benefits.
Modules
The comprehensive outage management system
The PCI Generation OMS is an integrated set of applications that streamline work processes and improve communications between field and operations personnel.
Long-term Outage Planning
Visualize outages for intuitive planning. Supplement outage data with supporting info to find optimal windows. Configurable validations minimize oversight. Categorize outages by season and type. Adjust outages directly in the calendar via drag & drop in future updates.
Log and track any asset issues. Record chronologies of daily business events, perform regulatory compliance, and track internal workflows with our fully configurable and customizable journal log.
Scheduling Module
Automate the scheduling process so users can import, review and modify schedule data using PCI’s system or other applications. Verify schedule consistency with outages or derates.
Plant Instructions Module
Enhance communications between dispatchers and field personnel by providing an audited messaging system to support real-time three-way communications.
Plant Interface Module
Plant personnel can review and update operational data driving day-ahead and real-time market offers. They can then monitor and report on market-clearing results and prices in the DA/RT modes.
NERC GADS Module
Better manage NERC GADS compliant outages, derates and reserve shutdown events while making those events available to other PCI or third-party applications via NERC GADS reporting.
Effectively plan, schedule and manage all grid outages while meeting NERC requirements with our comprehensive transmission outage management toolkit
Product Video
PCI outage management overview video
This three minute video tour gives you a high-level overview of the PCI Outage Management System
By the Numbers
$785K saved
According to a commissioned review of the business impact, a PCI customer in the Western US saved $785,000 using the PCI OMS outages, weather, and generation forecast data.
34 NERC metrics monitored
Monitor all 34 of the NERC metrics alongside 13 additional PCI performance metrics
15% reduction in work
A PCI customer in the Western US benefited from an annual reduction of 15% person-hour each rate-making period which alone amounted to an annual savings of $94K
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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Implemented in the following markets:
- Australia (AEMO)
- CAISO, MRTU/EIM/RC (WebOMS)
- ERCOT (Outage Scheduler)
- ISO New England (CROW)
- MEM (Mexico)
- MISO (CROW)
- New York ISO
- PJM Interconnection (DA/RT)
- SPP, IM/WEIS/RC (CROW)
- US Bilateral Markets