The smart single-system ETRM and Bid-to-Bill software built for power and fuels
Unify bidding, tagging, fuel logistics, risk, generation planning, settlements, and reporting in one system purpose-built to capture more value from physical power and fuels.
Built for the Way You Work
Everything you need in an ETRM System
Our software is focused on meeting the needs of customers who trade physical power, natural gas, and other energy commodities.
Full Transparency
- Enhance coordination with real-time data available across all desks
- Improve outcomes by basing decisions on a single source of record
- Report with confidence with robust analytics and reporting at every level
Automate and Optimize
- Quickly identify hidden deal opportunities
- Automate deal to tag and tag to deal workflows for faster, seamless scheduling and more profitable trades
- Optimize your hedging strategy with energy trading automation software
- Automate emissions tracking and management
Low Maintenance
- Capitalize on high availability in a cloud-based, flexible architecture
- Maximize value by paying for only the functionality you need (and none that you don’t!)
- Unlimited customer support, including for disruptive technologies and market changes
A Better Way
Why companies are replacing their legacy ETRMs
Do you find your ETRM difficult to maintain? Is it expensive to upgrade? Is it falling behind energy industry changes?
PCI has had success replacing every notable ETRM on the market.
PCI ETRM
Power-first platform
Workflows built for how power markets operate
Helpful automations
One system for power, gas and more
Unlimited customer support
Evergreen development
30+ year track record of successful partnerships
Legacy ETRMs
❌ Finance-first with power bolted on
❌ Cumbersome, generic workflows
❌ Manual workarounds and side spreadsheets
❌ Clunky bolt-ons and brittle integrations
❌ Slow service and constant up-charges
❌ Stuck in maintenance mode
❌ Inconsistent follow-through
Take a video tour of our Fuels & Power ETRM Platform
This five minute video tour gives you a high-level overview of our ETRM software
An ETRM built for Bid-To-Bill
Optimize all your workflows
Maximize efficiency by managing every workflow connected to power delivery, trading, settlements, reporting, and compliance with our cutting-edge ETRM system.
Deal Management & Capture
- Seamlessly integrate with exchanges like ICE
- Access real-time analytics and pricing insights
- Streamline position management for greater control
- Export valuation data to third-party systems with flexible workflows
Power & Fuel Scheduling
- Intuitive Power Scheduling and Gas & Fuels Management
- Integrate seamlessly with North American ISOs
- Automate deal-to-tag and tag-to-deal workflows
- Upgrade to modern, automated e-Tagging workflows with PCI’s e-Tag+ to create and submit e-tags in seconds
- Real-time visibility into purchased vs. available transmission paths with Transmission Portfolio Optimization
- Centralize scheduling, reporting, and tracking in one platform
Risk Management
- Understand the value of your portfolio
- Model your assets holistically
- Maintain tight audit adherence with granular trade controls
- Monitor credit in real-time to avoid End of Day delays
- Configure preventative and detective guardrails with out-of-the-box trade limits to support compliance and risk policies
Settlements
- Create statements and invoices using system data and flexible calculations
- Spot discrepancies early with detailed shadow settlements
- Dispute, track, and resolve settlement discrepancies within the same platform
- Streamline contract settlement for power and fuel commodities
- Seamlessly integrate with your existing ERP/GL system
Compliance and Reporting
- Generate FERC, EIA and regulatory reports
- Easily extract data for analytics
- Conduct post-analytics
- Enjoy peace of mind with secure audit reports and controls
As Featured In:
"With their success in building a base of referenceable clients in Europe, Australia, and Central & South America, we do anticipate that PCI will become a strong competitior in many, if not most, ETRM power and fuels deals around the globe."
Front-office
GenManager®, PCI’s front-office solution, enables you to build sets of bid/offer strategies in-advance for day-ahead and real-time, then quickly scrutinize awards to make well-informed strategic trading decisions, fast.
- Seamlessly capture executed trades or enter them in seconds
- Gain efficiency in your scheduling workflows by easily creating and linking e-Tags for power, automatically submitting nominations to pipelines for natural gas, or importing train manifests for coal management
- Visualize generation performance and market exposure across planning horizons with highly configurable position screens
- View accurate positions in real time, from 5-minute granularity to 20-year forecasts
- Evaluate trading opportunities with our Real Time Pricing tool to maximize trade value
Middle-office
PCI’s ETRM Platform helps to tightly integrate middle office with sales and trading teams, providing them with support on market risk positions, risk compliance, and quantifying their financial impact. It also helps to meet transaction reporting requirements by ensuring initial trade bookings, amendments, allocations and novations all happen in a timely manner.
- Analyze commodity trading activities and monitor market risk and internal compliance
- Prepare exposure and Mark-to-Market reports
- Export valuation data with workflows designed for integration with third-party systems
- Easily manage a portfolio of trading counterparts
- Enjoy best in class P&L attribution and drill down capabilities across complex derivatives and physical power businesses
Back-office
End-to-end workflow support for both ISO-controlled and bilateral trading markets with robust functionality for optimizing settlements for a wide array of market instruments.
- Automate charge allocations with rule-based buckets to streamline settlement.
- Run and distribute automated reports on settlement data or access it directly.
- Shadow and verify ISO charge codes.
- Quickly identify discrepancies. Dispute, track and resolve settlements.
By the Numbers
$1.2 million recovered
Guzman Energy identified a billing error and recovered over $1.2M using PCI’s shadow settlement and validation tools.
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
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
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
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
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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)
