Use your hydropower assets even more wisely
Maximize the utility of your water assets for all stakeholders while increasing the efficiency of your workflows with PCI’s hydropower optimization and water scheduling software.
Comprehensive Optimization & Scheduling
Reliably supply more clean energy at a lower cost
Enjoy the benefits of a power optimization and a water-balance model in one effective software solution.
Reduce Uncertainty
- Model and manage reservoirs, canals, penstocks, cascading hydro, and generators considering key attributes like elevation, storage function, and natural inflows
- Shape hydro generation and pumped storage based on market conditions and reliability requirements by managing storage, tailrace, and reservoir levels
- Realize significant economic benefits by replacing operator intuition with responsive data-backed software models
Lower Financial Risk
- Automatically optimize operations based on the interplay of weather conditions, the demand for power and water, the price of power, the cost of fuels, and more.
- Track hydro operations and license limitations across multiple time horizons to efficiently inform operator decisions
- Collaborate with multiple business units with real-time telemetry, maintenance event tracking, demand forecasting, and trading market data.
Make Better Decisions
- Easily Monitor trends with current data at your fingertips
- Optimize your workflows with data-driven enhanced reporting capabilitiesÂ
- Strategize and reduce risk by quickly performing accurate simulations based on how your system operates
Tailored Strategies
Coordinate the optimization of all of your assets in one software
Complement baseload efficiency
- Coordinated power and water production
- Optimized power production and water release
- Economically configured generating combinations
- Quick-response generation
- Environmental, recreational, and ownership rights management
- Operating and scheduling water
- Value storage
- Compliance
Optimize your entire portfolio, including:
Daily operational planning
Fuel burn forecasting
Asset valuation and acquisition
Post-analytics
Transaction structuring
Emissions
Power plant upgrade impacts
Hydropower 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
How SMUD performs enhanced optimization of hydro resources
Watch our webinar with PCI CTO Buck Feng and SMUD’s Debra Warady to learn how Sacramento Municipal Utility District used PCI software to optimize their hydropower operations.
Sustainable Solutions
A proven partner in the sustainable energy transition
We a thirty-year track record of partnering with global energy companies to rapidly adapt 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 introducedÂ
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 Webinar
The importance of hydropower in providing resource adequacy in a renewable world
Listen in on a discussion between PCI and Northwest River Partners about the challenges and opportunities ahead for hydropower.
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.
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
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)