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Maximize the return on your energy storage investment

Automatically co-optimize energy storage assets including batteries (BESS) within a broader portfolio and leverage effective bidding strategies within ISO and bilateral markets with a sophisticated and proven portfolio optimization tool.

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Smart Optimizations

Optimize the efficiency and profitability of energy storage

PCI’s Gentrader® seamlessly incorporates battery energy storage systems (BESS) and other energy storage assets into near real-time decision support, forecasting, long-range planning, and analytics.

Improve Efficiency

  • Optimally balance renewable resource intermittency
  • Relieve transmission congestion by shifting transmission system peaks
  • Confidently offer ancillary services for balancing load and generation in real-time

Increase Profitability

  • Maximize your opportunities to buy wholesale electricity while the locational marginal price is low and sell it back when prices are highest
  • Reduce costly demand charges by shaving peak load, smoothing uneven load profiles

Plan with Confidence

  • Delay, reduce or avoid costly T&D system upgrades due to demand growth
  • Model your ability to defer costly investments required to meet peak consumption demand

Client Testimonial

"We gained immediate benefits using the GenTrader® optimization tool after barely entering EIM. We wish we’d had it long before we joined the market"

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GM & EIM Program Manager

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Client Testimonial

"Our customers benefit greatly by us operating our system most economically, which is due to PCI’s robust optimizations and advanced risk management."

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Client Testimonial

"FMPP’s collaboration and partnership with PCI, including utilizing their very comprehensive GenTrader platform, has been instrumental in optimizing our entire resource portfolio to help us save more than $500 million - and counting."

Executive Director, FMPP

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PCI BatteryTrader™ ​

More profitable batteries​

Automate and optimize your battery energy storage systems (BESS) while boosting profits effortlessly with PCI BatteryTrader™, a module of PCI’s industry-leading GenTrader® product.

A smarter battery optimization and trading software for maximizing revenue in energy markets. 
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Portfolio Management

  • Comprehensive view of multiple battery assets 
  • Real-time monitoring of battery state of charge 
  • Performance tracking across different nodes/locations 
  • Support for standalone, co-located, and hybrid configurations 

Smart Bidding Strategies

  • Automated bid creation for day-ahead and real-time markets 
  • Customizable charging/discharging price thresholds 
  • Price forecast-based optimization 
  • Multiple breakpoint bidding options 

Technical Benefits

  • Web-based interface
  • Real-time data updates
  • Customizable dashboards
  • Integration with market systems
  • Historical data analysis 

Performance Analytics

  • Day-ahead projected P&L
  • Real-time deviation tracking
  • Historical performance analysis
  • Revenue optimization metrics

Market Integration

  • Automated bid submission 
  • Real-time market optimization 
  • Ancillary services support 

Sustainable Solutions

A complete battery and energy storage solution

From optimizing your portfolio to after-the-fact analytics, our full-spectrum software offers an end-to-end solution for BESS.

Optimize your entire portfolio, including:

Daily operational planning

Fuel burn forecasting

Asset valuation and acquisition

Post-analytics

Transaction structuring

Emissions

Power plant upgrade impacts

Hydro generation including cascaded and pumped storage

Thermal generation including combined-cycle

Renewable generation

Real-time pricing

Market prices: power, fuel, ancillary services, emissions

Complex option and forward contracts

Fuel constraints and energy-limited options

O&M optimization

Product Webinar

Maximize battery profits with PCI BatteryTrader

Get an inside look at PCI’s new BatteryTrader platform — built to automate bidding and optimize battery fleet performance across ISO markets using advanced analytics and strategy simulation tools.

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Sustainable Solutions

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

Product Video

Optimizing battery storage in day-ahead & real-time markets

Learn how our GenTrader® software models batteries and the benefits it brings in this 8 minute video tour of our energy storage optimization capabilities.

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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.

Industry Webinar

Long-Duration Energy Storage in RTO markets

Explore how RTOs are adapting to support long-duration energy storage technologies. In this session hosted by the LDES National Consortium, PCI experts unpack the market and regulatory shifts shaping the future of grid-scale storage — and what it means for operators, developers, and trading teams.

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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

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

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

Trust through transparency
More time for analysis
Unified platform and team
Integrated suite of tools
Rapid ROI realized
Tailored software solutions

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Vice President, Business Development

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