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Use your water assets even more wisely

Maximize the utility of your water assets for all stakeholders while increasing the efficiency of your workflows with PCI’s GenTrader®.

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Comprehensive Optimization

Sustainably and 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 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 capabilities 
  • Strategize and reduce risk by quickly performing accurate simulations based on how your system operates

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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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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Tailored Strategies

Coordinate the optimization of all of your assets

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 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

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

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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Vice President, Business Development

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