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Forecast, track and optimize your carbon emission intensity
Empower your organization’s energy transition with accurate CO2 modeling and near real-time decision support from our industry-leading GenTrader® software solution.
Lower CO2
Build an actionable plan to tackle carbon emissions
Whether your goal is to optimize your fleet dispatch with carbon constraints, simulate a carbon tax on your P&L, or track scope 1 emissions, PCI’s GenTrader® emissions tracking software can help.
Accurately Forecast
- Accurately forecast greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
- Model new projects to determine their impact on carbon equivalent intensity in addition to other factors like cost
- Simulate market changes, like carbon taxes, and prepare optimum responses
Reduce CO2e Emissions
- Determine the most cost-effective carbon equivalent reduction strategies for your portfolio with simultaneous emission constraint optimization
- Optimize your portfolio based on CO2e constraints to discover areas for carbon intensity reductions
Track Commitments
- Calculate and report Scope 1 emissions based on actual power generation and Scope 2 for power purchase agreements
Client Testimonial
"We gained immediate benefits using the GenTrader optimization tool after barely entering WEIM. We wish we'd had it long before we joined the market."
Client GM & EIM Program Manager
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A proven partner for navigating the sustainable energy transition
PCI is a trusted partner to energy companies around the world with a thirty-year track record of rapidly adapting to the ever-changing energy landscape and policies.
Master Increasing Complexity
- Manage more generation units, contracts, and trades with the same resources through smart automation
- Respect license and environmental requirements by including them in all planning horizons
- 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
By the Numbers
1-3% average production cost savings
Our customers enjoy very significant benefits from optimizing their portfolios, on average saving somewhere between one and three percent of the production costs.
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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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)