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 A large Midwest retail power and gas company needed a way to monitor and analyze the health of power generation units for the executive level and plant management. The client wanted to determine the current daily, weekly and monthly available generation capacity versus curtailed units. They also wanted to analyze outage types and trends […]
Issue The client is a fully integrated electric utility in the Midwest, not currently participating in a major organized transmission system. They and other utilities were contemplating entering into an organized system, most likely the Southwest Power Pool. As part of its due diligence for entering into this market, the client requested assistance in understanding […]
Issue The client is a municipal electric provider replacing an outdated ETRM with limited internal resources.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 The client is a large Northeast generation company whose front-office platform was reaching end of life. The load forecasting, bidding, scheduling, and dispatch platform had to be replaced: The current technology was at the end of its useful life. The client was torn between buying the bid-submission/dispatch package and building the strategic bid-creation piece […]
Issue The client is a power generator that had recently moved into MISO South after participating in Entergy pre-merger. Since joining MISO South, Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch were producing less-than-optimal results: Operating parameters, start-up and no-load costs, and heat-rate settings had not been re-tuned for the new market. Sub-optimal offers cost the client margin […]
Issue The client operated its business in two different time zones and experienced difficulty integrating the data to maintain the accuracy of the daily P&L, value at risk (VaR), and invoicing reports. In attempting to standardize the trading position, the client entered the transactions as one time zone. This created a problem when the trades […]
