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Comprehensive power scheduling software
Precise power scheduling is crucial for maximizing operational efficiency and profitability. PCI’s power scheduling software seamlessly integrates with our Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) platform, providing end-to-end automation and robust analytics to support all of your scheduling needs.
Schedule Power
Streamline scheduling
Improve the accuracy and reliability of your power scheduling operations so you can make more informed decisions with better outcomes.
Straight-Through Scheduling
- Capture deals across commodities and extend to full logistical scheduling with ISOs and Tag Authorities using PCI’s innovative e-Tag+ solution.
- Automate all scheduling workflows with customized user permissions, approvals, and controls to ensure data integrity and process efficiency.
- Utilize PCI’s Real-Time Pricing function for deep analytics, enabling you to determine the feasibility and desirability of deals in real-time.
Powerful Integrations
- Interface seamlessly with all North American ISOs for bid-to-bill operations, ensuring efficient and accurate scheduling and settlement processes.
- Support for both hourly and sub-hourly scheduling workflows, accommodating the dynamic nature of power markets.
- Benefit from a single, integrated ETRM platform that consolidates trading, scheduling, and settlement workflows, providing a 360° view of your enterprise operations.
Enhanced Analytics
- Gain insights with robust analytics that support optimization of scheduling and trading decisions, including deal-to-market and award-to-deal workflows.
- Create custom dashboards that provide a real-time view of your scheduling operations, enhancing decision-making and operational transparency
Client Testimonial
"PCI has proven to be a very reliable partner in support of our trading activities. They’ve really helped speed up our back-office workflow to close the book faster, identify meter data errors, and validate complex settlement calculations."
Alex Baird
Energy Trading Supervisor, CSU
A comprehensive ETRM
Optimize all of your workflows
Manage and optimize all the workflows associated with physical power delivery, power trading, settlements, reporting and compliance with the most comprehensive power and gas scheduling software in the space.
Deal Management & Capture
- Integrate with exchanges like ICE
- Get analytics and real-time pricing
- Simplify position management
Integrated Power & Fuel Scheduling
- Integrate with North American ISOs
- Create and submit bids
- Integrate with PCI’s Gas and Fuels Management solution
- Utilize e-Tagging workflows with e-Tag+
Risk Management
- Understand the value of your portfolio
- Model your assets holistically without taking shortcuts
- Exercise granular trade controls and quickly prove process adherence in audits
- Monitor credit in real-time. No waiting on a lengthy End of Day process
Settlements
- Calculate statements and settle invoices
- Identify discrepancies with detailed shadow settlements
- Process physical and financial contract settlements for power and fuel commodities
- Seamlessly integrate with your existing ERP/GL system
Compliance and Reporting
- Generate FERC, EIA and other regulatory reporting out-of-the-box
- Extract data for analytics
- Conduct post-analytics
- Enjoy peace of mind with user security including audit reports and controls
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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"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."
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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