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Plan Long-Term Outages with Precision and Ease

Take the complexity out of long-term outage planning. Visually schedule outages, evaluate impacts in real time, and make adjustments without waiting on manual approvals or wrestling with spreadsheets. Our outage planning software is purpose-built to give planners the control, confidence, and context they need to make better decisions—faster.

Long-Term Outage Planning

Get Strategic With Your Outages

Model future windows with confidence—factoring in market rules, LTSAs, environmental limits, and long-term capacity impacts.

Schedule

Drag and drop outages across months or season
Group and filter by unit, region, or outage type
Configure validations to catch overlaps and constraints
Align schedules with ISO/RTO long-term windows
Set up clear handoffs to short-term planning workflows

Model

Track LTSA limits like fired hours or starts
Forecast ambient derates and seasonal capacity changes
Factor in Title V, sound abatement, and fuel constraints
Simulate how physical outages affect logical availability
Use margin publications (e.g. SPP, MISO) to optimize timing

Plan

Compare alternate outage windows side-by-side
Estimate cost, labor, and opportunity trade-offs
Track all changes for audit and stakeholder review
Automate compliance reporting (e.g. GADS) from planning data

Client Testimonial

"PCI’s Outage Management solution has dramatically improved our outage planning and communication process. Gone are the multitude of disconnected spreadsheets, forgotten emails, and last-minute group conference calls. Our team’s collaboration has never been better."

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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.

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All-in-one solution

Part of a comprehensive outage management system

Our Long-Term Outage Planning software is part of an integrated set of applications within PCI Generation OMS that streamline work processes and improve communications between field and operations personnel.

Related modules

Long-Term Outage Planning
Scheduling module
Plant instructions module
Plant interface module
Operator journal logging
GADS module

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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