Simplify and speed up your outage management process
Effectively plan, schedule and manage all grid outages while meeting NERC requirements with our comprehensive transmission outage management toolkit
Modernize
Manage outages in less time and
with fewer errors
Built to simplify and automate the transmission outage lifecycle, PCI’s Transmission Outage Management system makes outage entry quick and easy, with auditable outage changes, and workflows that scale to your needs.
Streamline Operations
- Manage the outage lifecycle from schedulers and line dispatch to control room and field crew
- Support for variety of approval, sign-off and study workflows
- Utilize gantt-style timelines to coordinate multi-year outage plans
- Download neighboring utility outages
- Automatic management of FERC 881 mandated ambient line ratings
Support Field Crew
- Template-driven switching order management
- Support for generating clearances and hot line holds
- Maintain and translate outages across multiple equipment models
- Record and track all operational events for anytime-access and auditing
- Forced outage detection, creation and submission
Integrate and Automate
- Generate NERC TADS reports based on outage events
- Track disturbance events and meet PRC-004 reporting requirements
- Conform to all ISO/RTO/RC and NERC data requirements
- Automatically share detailed information with market operators and regulatory authorities
- Detailed analytics available on role specific dashboards
Modules
The comprehensive outage management system
The PCI Transmission OMS is an integrated set of applications that streamline work processes and improve communications between field crew, substation operations, schedulers and control room.
Comply with FERC Order 881 mandating weather-based line ratings. Intuitive software calculates seasonal adjusted ratings for multiple weather zones to maximize capacity within regulations. Incorporates multiple season definitions and solar exposure times. Learn more about our LRMS tool here.
TADS
Driven by event data within the outage system, the TADS module can identify BES impacting equipment outages and create corresponding TADS report records. Users can provide supporting data and quickly generate NERC submissible reports.
Disturbance Tracking
Identify and log disturbance events, generate outages for any sustained disturbances, and track customers impacted. Support for tracking geospatial data specific to equipment and events
Misoperations
Identify, log and track protection system misoperation events for BES elements. Generate PRC-004 compliant reports for submission to NERC. Link records to disturbance events and comprehensive outage analysis.
Integrate with Transmission Study Tools
Transmission OMS can communicate and interface with standard transmission tools such as PowerWorld and PSSE – making it easy for Transmission Engineers to initiate studies and post results into PCI.
Quickly coordinate real-time generation outages, conduct long-term outage planning and configure your workflows to streamline your operations. And do it all while meeting regulatory requirements and generating clear audit trails.
Product Webinar
How OG&E automates outage management using PCI
Learn from Richard Owen, supervisor of Market Operations at Oklahoma Gas and Electric, how OG&E updated their outage management workflow with the PCI OMS and generated considerable benefits.
By the Numbers
$785K
saved
According to a commissioned review of the business impact, a PCI customer in the Western US saved $785,000 using the PCI OMS outages, weather, and generation forecast data.
34 NERC metrics monitored
Monitor all 34 of the NERC metrics alongside 13 additional PCI performance metrics.
15% reduction in work
A PCI customer in the Western US benefited from an annual reduction of 15% person-hour each rate-making period which alone amounted to an annual savings of $94K.
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
Upcoming webinars and events
Implemented in the following markets:
- Australia (AEMO)
- CAISO, MRTU/EIM/RC (WebOMS)
- ERCOT (Outage Scheduler)
- ISO New England (CROW)
- MEM (Mexico)
- MISO (CROW)
- NYISO (New York ISO)
- PJM Interconnection (DA/RT)
- SPP, IM/WEIS/RC (CROW)
- US Bilateral Markets
