Make Confident Market Decisions with Precision AI Forecasting
PCI Forecaster is a comprehensive power and renewable energy forecasting software that combines machine learning and advanced analytics to deliver accurate, reliable forecasts across load, renewable energy (wind and solar), and locational marginal pricing (LMP). Designed for utilities, IPPs, and municipalities, PCI Forecaster consolidates multiple forecast sources and automates scenario analysis, enabling you to make fast, informed market decisions with confidence. With PCI’s forecasting software, streamline your complex energy forecasting demands, reduce operational risks, and maximize market opportunities.
PCI Forecaster
Accurate and Adaptable
Get precise, actionable insights for energy and market forecasting, to make smarter decisions and get more from your resources.
Accurate Forecasts
- Apply advanced machine learning for precise load, wind, solar, and LMP forecasts
- Automatically refresh renewable energy forecasts with real-time weather and market data
- Blend vendor data using custom weighting strategies for balanced predictions
- Model resource-specific variability with tailored forecasts for renewable energy, capturing changes in wind and solar output with precision
Analyze Scenarios
- Test “what-if” scenarios to understand potential market impacts on load, renewables, and pricing
- Simulate weather-driven outcomes to support planning for wind and solar variability
- Compare vendor performance under different conditions to enhance forecast reliability
- Reduce forecasting risks by consolidating reliable vendor data and gaining insights into forecast uncertainty
Save Time
- Eliminate manual processes by automating data integration and forecast generation
- Ingest weather, SCADA, IoT and other data automatically
- Streamline market participation by submitting forecasts directly into demand bid workflows
- Manage resource availability directly within your forecasting process, including turbine outages for wind resources
Product Webinar
AI/ML Forecast Analytics & the Pursuit of Net Zero
Discover how PCI Forecast Analytics improves the application of variable energy and load forecasts within your energy trading and operations.
All-in-one Energy Management
Comprehensive portfolio optimization software
PCI Forecaster is part of a suite of applications that work seamlessly with GenTrader®, our industry-leading portfolio modeling and optimization platform. By combining accurate load, renewable energy (wind, solar) and LMP forecasts with robust co-optimization across energy, ancillary services and fuel markets, GenTrader unlocks superior portfolio management.
Streamline Workflows
- Ingest forecasts seamlessly into GenTrader optimizations
- Inform bidding strategies with data-driven demand insights
- Execute optimized schedules automated by GenTrader
- Leverage forecasts across short and long-term studies
Customer Testimonial
OUC Optimize Complex Asset Portfolios with PCI
Ed Bemis describes his experience working with GenTrader and PCI to optimize a complex asset portfolio at Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC)
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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
