Issue The client is an industry-leading renewable energy owner and operator, actively trading, scheduling, and settling over 7,800 MW of wind, solar, and storage assets across multiple ISO/RTO markets in North America. The client acquired a new 80 MW solar facility with a power purchase offtake agreement in the western interconnection of the United States. […]
Issue The client is one of North America's largest power producers, in the middle of a merger with another large producer. The acquired company's ETRM (Endur) had to be folded into the client's own platform (Zainet/Aligne) on a compressed schedule: All risk-management reporting had to be re-engineered for the acquired company's data and book structure. […]
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 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 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 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 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 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 […]
