Issue The client operates an impressive portfolio of assets, consisting of hydro, wind, solar, and one thermal resource, across both the RTO and bilateral North American markets. Management of power markets, requires a wide-ranging combination of different people, processes, technology, and data to support the business objectives and the market requirements. At the beginning of […]
Issue The client is the physical energy trading subsidiary of a large multinational financial trading and investment firm. Following the refined-products re-implementation, a second phase had to capture physical natural gas trading: Scope covered trade entry, scheduling, actualizing, and invoicing for physical gas. Staff new to both the client and the system would have to […]
Issue Our client needed to receive audio alerts based on readings from the OSIsoft PI real-time data. OSIsoft has a product that delivers notifications but not in audio format. The client wanted an alert as soon as a limit was exceeded in real-time delivered through audio so it would not be missed. Solution Our consultant […]
Issue The client, a large North American power company with a presence in over twenty states, wanted to pursue a retail-centric strategy and consolidate its wholesale and retail system landscape: Integration between wholesale and retail was weak, especially in risk monitoring. That gap made it hard to communicate the strategy's benefits to the financial community. […]
Issue The client is a Northwestern power and gas utility running OpenLink Endur for energy trading and risk management. The client had to upgrade Endur from v14 to v17 under difficult conditions: The work fell amid significant market volatility. An aggressive window was required to beat the end-of-year change blackout. Missing the deadline would push […]
Issue The client is a West Coast energy utility serving many gas-fired power generators and local distribution companies. Corrupt storage nominations and schedules had derailed the prior year's close: The client needed help loading and balancing Endur across daily nominations, storage injections and withdrawals, and multiple pipelines. Scheduling errors risked lost opportunities and pipeline-contract tolerance […]
Issue The client is a large Midwestern natural gas and power company that had recently completed several system implementations. The client needed to cut ongoing ETRM support costs without losing capability: Reports left undone during implementation still had to be built. A new business unit had to be on-boarded. All of this had to happen […]
Issue The client is a large East Coast natural gas utility and marketing company integrating a newly acquired retail business. A newly acquired retail business had to be integrated into the client's existing two-system solution: Interfaces moved data between the trade-capture/scheduling system and the risk/accounting system. Pricing formulas, risk and accounting reports, and key trade […]
Issue The client is a municipal electric provider replacing an outdated ETRM with limited internal resources. The client issued an RFP to replace an aging ETRM but was short on resources to run it: Staff needed help building scripts for vendors to follow in webinar and onsite demos. Unstructured demos would let vendors drive with […]
Issue Our client, a retail electric provider, engaged MidDel Consulting to assess their current systems and processes landscape. MidDel was engaged to provide a recommended course of action to improve their systems capabilities, streamline current operations, and lay the foundation for future profitable growth. MidDel conducted top-down and bottom-up analyses by meeting with management and […]
