Renewable Energies
An Evergreen Platform for a Greener Transition
PCI’s softwares empower energy companies tackling the Energy Transition and Climate challenges to manage complex renewables trading while mitigating risks and identifying emerging opportunities.
Renewables Trading & Scheduling
Manage renewable assets and comply with industry standards
Battery Storage & Optimization
Optimize energy storage operations and maximize value
Hydrogen Assests Management
Manage your hydrogen resources across all ISO markets
Hydropower Operations & Leverage
Maximize every “drop” of value considering resource conditions
Sustainable Solutions
Harness the complexities of the Renewable Markets
by rapidly adapting to the ever-changing energy landscape and policies with the most comprehensible multi-commodity platform built to capture all emerging opportunities of the Energy Transition.
Master Increasing Complexity
- Manage more generation units, contracts and trades with the same resources through smart automations.
- Successfully integrate renewable assets into your portfolio with systems and procedures built to accommodate them
- Trade and incorporate new market instruments as they’re introduced
Capture Emerging Opportunities
- Maximize the life of your battery assets with State of Charge Management
- Take advantage of the opportunity to trade new commodities like energy credits
- Reliably incorporate weather-dependent renewable assets with confidence through industry-leading forecasting
Manage New Risks
- Make better capital allocation decisions about renewable assets and batteries with more accurate load forecasts
- Track and document your environmental commitments through emissions and greenhouse gas tracking
- Mitigate increased price risks from spikes and negative prices
Built Exclusively For Power Traders
RECs Accounting, Tracking & Inventory
Support and promote Clean Energy by tracing and categorizing every MWh of renewable power that your company injects into the grid and align it to your sustainable goals.
Renewable energy trading & scheduling
Efficiently model, manage, and optimize renewable assets while ensuring compliance with industry standards. Streamline operations and maximize portfolio profitability with advanced tools for trading and risk assessment.
- Dynamically model and manage renewable assets, including real-time ISO operations.
- Optimize trading of complex instruments to create necessary hedges and maximize returns.
- Seamlessly manage Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) to integrate renewable resources effectively.
- Automate the tracking and compliance of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to meet Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) requirements.
- Leverage advanced risk analytics to assess and mitigate portfolio exposure.
Energy storage optimization & trading
Battery storage is vital for managing intermittent renewable generation and enhancing portfolio performance. PCI’s solutions empower you to optimize energy storage operations and maximize value in ISO energy and ancillary services markets.
- Simulate dispatch scenarios with Day-Ahead (DA) and Real-Time (RT) market prices to determine optimal bidding strategies
- Optimize state of charge management to reduce wear and prevent excessive deep cycling events
- Automate bidding processes with customizable templates tailored to different risk-return profiles
- Model and manage standalone batteries and hybrid or co-located resources for seamless integration into energy markets
- Leverage PCI BatteryTrader™ to integrate battery operations seamlessly into your portfolio, automate dispatch and bidding processes, and maximize profitability with advanced performance analytics
Hydrogen optimization
Hydrogen assets like electrolyzers, steam methane reformers, fuel cells, and H2-capable turbines are at the forefront of the energy transition. PCI provides the tools you need to optimize and manage hydrogen resources across ISO markets or regional hydrogen hubs.
- Maximize renewable energy utilization by producing green hydrogen instead of curtailing excess power
- Produce hydrogen for long-duration energy storage to support grid reliability and sustainability
- Unlock new revenue streams for renewable hydrogen within emerging hydrogen hubs
- Seamlessly integrate hydrogen projects into your energy portfolio with advanced modeling and optimization tools
Hydropower optimization & scheduling
Maximizing every “drop” of value is essential for hydropower resource owners navigating variable resource conditions and a greener electric grid. PCI’s Water Optimization and Scheduling module offers a feature-rich, user-friendly platform to adapt to the evolving landscape of hydro operations.
- Manage storage, tailrace, and reservoir levels to shape hydro generation and pumped storage based on market conditions and reliability requirements
- Track hydro operations and license limitations across multiple time horizons to efficiently drive operator decisions
- Leverage enhanced reporting tools to monitor trends, run simulations, and provide data-driven workflows for operational excellence
- Integrate seamlessly with PCI’s broader suite of solutions to holistically manage hydropower assets and drive long-term value
Carbon intensity
The energy transition demands innovative solutions to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. PCI’s GenTrader® empowers you to track, forecast, and analyze carbon intensity, ensuring your portfolio aligns with sustainability goals while maximizing operational efficiency.
- Accurately forecast GHG emissions to plan and meet compliance standards
- Calculate and report Stage 1 emissions based on actual generation data
- Simulate carbon taxes and assess their financial impact on your P&L
- Identify and implement cost-effective carbon reduction strategies tailored to your portfolio
Product Webinar
How SMUD performs enhanced optimization of hydro resources
Watch our webinar with PCI CTO, Buck Feng and Debra Warady from SMUD to learn how Sacramento Municipal Utility District used PCI software to optimize their hydro operations.
Model and Optimize
Optimize your energy assets to maximize their efficiency
Actionable
- Accurate study results no matter the complexity
- Insightful information you can use to make profitable and energy efficient decisions
Integrated
- Seamless integration with the PCI software platform
- Integrates with any third-party systems
Innovative
- We’ve recently led the market by innovating emissions modeling, asset-based commodity arbitrage and constrained fuel
A Gas Cost Savings Solution
1-2% of total gas costs saved
Cost savings from utilizing PCI’s Gas Management Solution range from 1-2% of total gas costs on average, depending on the size of your portfolio.
Vision
Our company vision is to create software solutions that are an integral part of our customers’ success, helping them achieve a more reliable, affordable, and cleaner energy future
Our commitment is to empower you to navigate the transition to a carbon-zero energy future
Proudly built on the PCI Platform
At PCI, we aim for our technology to hit the sweet spot between reliability, performance, flexibility and ease of use.
