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
Product Webinar
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.
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
Product Video
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
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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