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The intelligent energy tagging solution
e-Tag+ sets a new standard for energy tagging software. It’s a functionality-rich and secure application that fully integrates with other applications to manage downstream workflows such as power scheduling, transmission operations, billing, and real-time balancing.
Built for Better Workflows
Spend less time tagging
e-Tag+ streamlines tasks, automates processing rules, provides proactive alerts, summarizes calculations, and displays insightful data visualizations that save your team time and gives them the answers they need.
A Faster e-Tagging Experience
- Quick view displays for easy creation, editing, sending and receiving of NERC e-Tags
- Timelier tag information updates via asynchronous screen refreshes
- Integrates with PCI’s Platform for tag creation, automatic validation and submission
Smart Automations
- Minimize user mistakes with data entry validation rules.
- Link multiple tags to a single deal
- Full access to your data downstream enables further automations and reporting
- Interface with OASIS to validate Transmission Profiles
Configurable to Each User
- Create personalized views, filters, highlights, alerts and reports
- Tailor and assign approvals, whether fully-automated, semi-automated, or manual
- Light or dark screen modes suit your personal work environment.
Client Testimonial
"Supply and trading shops like ours have grown tired of tagging tools that don’t allow us to fully own our data, which hamstrings our ability to export data and quickly conduct performance analytics. PCI’s e-Tag+ solved these issues immediately and gave us more flexibility, functionality, and automation firepower in a very user-friendly system."
Director, Power Supply & Trading
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“This new process that PCI brought us with e-Tag+ for submitting our schedules and bids for renewables has been incredible. It took us from a really frustrating process to where we’ve completely forgotten about it.”
UMPA Power Marketing Manager
Energy tagging functionality with a modern feel
Our intuitive interface optimizes tagging
Every user can configure the e-Tag+ interface and product experience to exactly match all required power tagging workflows.
Streamlined Workflows
- Trader and operator workflows designed for speed and accuracy
- Easy back office e-Tag checkout and analysis via detail lists with as-of requests and snapshot computation
- Checkout reports and exports of tag data for further billing analysis
Essential Dashboards
- Monitor critical e-Tag events and data in real-time from our centralized summary dashboard. Get prompt notifications of important events, like eTag upgrades
- Personalized, configurable screens with easy access to histories and snapshots
- Innovative tag path and profile diagram
- Analyze transmission availability capacities across your network with our dedicated report
Innovative Improvements
- Automatic creation of tags using Tag templates that store all e-Tag attributes including profiles
- Automatic approval or denial of requests and submissions to e-tag Authority
- e-Tag Forward distributes real-time tag data anywhere, including to 3rd party apps
Product Video
PCI innovates e-Tagging functionality & automation
See the e-Tag+ difference for yourself in our 8 minute product video, led by product manager Valeria Herrera
The PCI Platform
Built on modern, cloud-first technology
At PCI we aim for our technology to hit the sweet spot between reliability, performance, flexibility and ease of use.
Cloud-first
- Scales up quickly with no loss of performance.
- Distributed database maximizes processing capabilities
- We regularly exceed security requirements, lowering risk to your business
Reliable
- Proven to reliably handle the demands of energy tagging at scale
- Forward e-Tag data with no latency and no lost tags wherever you need it
- Multi-region support enhances reliability and uptime even during AWS region disruptions
Quick Implementation
- Easy out of the box deployment means you complete your implementation sooner
- Painless software updates without outages or downtime
- Easy to use APIs give you the option to keep your own front end
By the Numbers
Multiple requests per second
Our e-Tag+ forwarding service instantaneously handles forwarding tags for clients with ~500 daily tags across up to 3 systems. High volume is no problem.
NAESB, NERC and technology standards compliant
We work with energy companies across the world, including federal and state entities, under stringent compliance and regulatory mandates. This ensures the security and reliability of mission critical software ecosystems.
NAESB WEQ and NERC Compliant
Active in NAESB meetings and following evolving NERC standards, ensuring we make appropriate and timely technical updates
Meeting the Highest Technology Standards
AICPA SOC II Type II and FISMA NIST 800-53 compliant
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
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
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)
- NE-ISO (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)