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PCI Energy Solutions serves utility companies, independent power producers, and wholesale power traders. We support customers in every organized market in North America and maintain a global presence across five continents.

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50%+ of North American power is optimized using the PCI Platform

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PCI da soporte al 90% de la capacidad de generación eléctrica en México

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Dwarak Varadharajan

Strategies to Maximize Battery ROI in Today’s ISO/RTO Markets

Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are playing a critical role in today’s grid, offering unmatched flexibility in balancing supply and demand. But turning that flexibility into profit — without degrading

July 23, 2025
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Kathy Hitchens

BESS Market Size & Growth: Trends Shaping the Energy Storage Landscape

A battery energy storage system (BESS) is an integrated system that uses rechargeable batteries to store electrical energy for later use. With the increased integration of intermittent renewable energy resources

December 6, 2024
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Kathy Hitchens

Technologies to Reduce Carbon Emissions: What’s New and What’s Working?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful business tool that gives utilities the ability to make data-informed decisions. Sophisticated AI algorithms analyze data, identify trends, and notify you of potential problems

January 10, 2024
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Bryan Kelly

The Battery Revolution: Transforming the Future of Energy Storage

This blog post is the second in an eight-part series on navigating the transition to sustainable energy based on company-wide emails crafted by Fred Lee, PCI founder and CEO, and

August 23, 2023
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Bryan Kelly

Navigating the Energy Transition: Strategies for Sustainable Energy Portfolio Management

This blog post is the first in an eight-part series on navigating the transition to sustainable energy based on company-wide emails crafted by Fred Lee, PCI founder and CEO, and

July 19, 2023
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Jeremy Pober

Manage End-to-End Workflows for Batteries & Other ESRs in the MISO Market

If you’re a participant in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) market, you likely know that, as of Sept. 1, 2022, you have a new way to integrate your Electric

April 5, 2023
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Fred Lee

Green Energy and Energy Storage

This summer, as we reached the mid-year point, I expected widespread power outages in the remainder of 2022 and beyond. The underlying reason has been the replacement of conventional generation

October 25, 2022
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Kathy Hitchens

How Quickly Can the U.S. Ramp Up Battery Storage Capacity?

  While integrating wind and solar energy sources into the grid will help the energy industry reduce its carbon emissions, there is one significant downside to these renewables – they’re

April 27, 2022
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Kathy Hitchens

How Virtual Power Plants Are Reshaping the Grid

  Traditionally, the U.S. has relied on big, centralized power plants to provide its electricity. That power flows only one way – from the power plant to the customer. But,

March 10, 2022
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John Bonnin

Battery Energy Storage Systems & Electric Distribution

Learn about battery energy storage located within electric distribution systems that supply energy in urban and suburban centers.

November 12, 2021
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John Bonnin

Battery Energy Storage and the Electric Grid

While there are other energy storage technologies in existence, this post will focus on battery energy storage in the wholesale market.

October 20, 2021
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John Bonnin

Energy Storage Integration in the Texas Power Market

Large-scale energy storage is coming to the Texas power market, and it will enhance the grid reliability and reduce the use of fossil fuels.

October 5, 2021
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Patrick McGarry

CAISO Energy Storage and FERC Order 841

CAISO energy storage market model are evolving to address requirements for compliance with FERC Order 841.

August 16, 2021
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Patrick McGarry

The New Power Couple: The Hybrid Plant & PCI GenTrader

Last week, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) published new research on the growth in utility-scale hybrid projects. The study’s findings, published in The Electricity

March 31, 2020
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Patrick McGarry

Highly Effective GENCO Habit #3: Operation & Bidding of Complex Assets

PCI’s third post in our blog series, “7 Habits of Highly Effective GENCOs”, continues by discussing the operation and bidding of complex assets, their increasing utilization, and the inexorable move

September 17, 2019
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