Make your back office more efficient
PCI’s settlements and billing software automates and optimizes processes to save time, find discrepancies, and make it easy for both ISO and bilateral power market participants to manage the changing demands of an increasingly complex industry.
Contract Management & Billing
Simplify contract management and billing
No matter how complicated your contracts, PCI can replace your manual processes and hard-to-maintain spreadsheets with fast, cloud-ready, automated software.
Save Time
- Vastly reduce the manual work needed to invoice and shadow settlement all contract types
- Gather data in real-time so you aren’t waiting for preliminary month-end estimates
- Auto-map contract data straight to your general ledger
Be Agile
- Easily generate new contracts with new performance terms and modify them when required
- Adapt to counter-party and market changes using defined control sets
- Master the increasing complexity caused by the transition toward renewable generation
Trust Your Data
- PCI validates your contract data before using it
- We vet thousands of data points, market rules, and rule changes, so you don’t have to
- Get to the data you need with customized dashboards and quick drill-down capabilities
Optimize settlements
Enjoy end-to-end workflow support, optimizing settlements for a wide array of market instruments.
ISO & Shadow Settlements
Calculate preliminary pre-settlements of the ISO charges prior to the availability of the ISO statement to provide a comprehensive side-by-side comparison to quickly find discrepancies.
Transmission Shadow Settlements
Validate transmission provider bills through shadow settlements to automatically compare expected costs vs actuals.
Advanced Allocation
PCI allocates costs to internal and external entities before the data are passed to your general ledger, assigning them to pre-defined buckets based on rules you determine. You can even bill a joint owner or book AR/AP for complex market transactions.
Settlements Forecasting
Next day settlements forecasting supports accruals and profitability analysis.
FERC EQR
PCI GenManager® supports the unique EQR needs for ISO market transactions, generating your files pre-formatted for submission to the FERC portal.
Product Webinar
NIPSCO’s experience with validating MISO transmission settlements
Learn how NIPSCO went from creating all shadow settlement calculations and reports manually in Excel to being able to validate resettlements, forecast a future transmission settlements budget, and more, through PCI
Decades of Savings
Millions of disputes identified
Thousands of man hours saved with automated shadow validations
Countless human performance errors eliminated with automated general ledger integrations
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
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
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)
