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Automate transmission scheduling with improved reliability
Experience a modern, intuitive user interface, time-saving automations, and dynamic visualizations from a system that has been operating reliably without interruption since 2017.
Improve Your Process
Ensure the stable operation of the interconnection
Streamline generation planning, transmission planning, dispatch, operation, and interchange scheduling while optimizing transmission portfolio utilization and cost-effectiveness. Enhance settlement accuracy and billing by integrating real-time and day-ahead data with ISO/RTOs and balancing authorities, and by leveraging advanced transmission portfolio optimization.
Smart Automations
- Automatically adjust e-Tags before the fact using generation forecast data, and after the fact using actual meter data
- Be better informed with dynamic data visualizations for the one-minute control number, renewable and load forecast, interchange schedule adjustments and curtailment
- Improve situational awareness with customizable and color-coded real-time alerts and notifications
Optimize
- Visualize your transmission portfolio’s size, valuation, and usage across various paths and providers
- Maximize asset utilization by optimizing transmission paths, consolidating e-Tags, and automating e-Tag adjustments
- Seize opportunities with suggestions for procuring transmission while minimizing costs, and for sharing existing transmission with counterparties
- Drill down into control number schedules and individual transmission contract utilization for deeper analysis
Reliable & Secure
- Leveraging the latest technology advancements and system monitoring tools to ensure the healthiness and availability of the system
- We have maintained over a decade of annual independent cyber security auditing and are Soc II Type II compliant
Client Testimonial
"PCI helps us bring all of these disparate data sources and come up with what we should actually be doing. What is the available transmission? What is our latest wind forecast? And how do we join those things together so that we have a clear picture."
Matt Veghte
Senior Manager, Pattern Energy
Client Testimonial
"Dispatchers save 10-15 minute of their time every hour by using the PCI Transmission Scheduling module to automate the hourly workflow. Now they can grab a cup of coffee in between and get ready for the next hour to come."
Balancing Authority Operator
Product Webinar
Using PCI transmission scheduling to automate BA operations
Take an in-depth tour of our Transmission Scheduling software with PCI Director Suiyi Su and learn how our Transmission Scheduling system creates efficiencies and improves accuracy by automating workflows.
Functionality
A comprehensive transmission system
PCI’s transmission system provides the following functionality
Manage area balance, interchange scheduling and After-the-Fact checkout.
Manage, automate and streamline the calculation and validation of generation and load meters, as well as interchange schedules in and out of defined areas. Identify potential meter errors.
Produce invoice and checkout reports for each transmission customer, shadow invoices received from other transmission providers, and integrate with any general ledger system.
Meet NRC requirements and manage all transmission outages while reporting them to one or more ISOs. Get a coordinated stream of outage event and status data from the field to the front office and ISO.
Optimize your transmission assets by leveraging real-time analytics for transmission planning to maximize utilization, minimize costs, and seize opportunities for strategic procurement.
Supporting Data
24-7 since 2017
Our transmission scheduling solution has been operating reliably and continuously twenty four hours and day, seven days a week since 2017.
The PCI Platform
Built on modern, cloud-first technology
At PCI we aim for our technology to hit the sweet spot between reliable and high performance, flexible, lightweight to maintain and easy to onboard.
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
Quick Implementation
- Easy out of the box deployment means you complete your implementation sooner
- Painless software updates
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)
- 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)