Issue The client is a renewable generation developer, owner, and operator whose rapid growth created a multi-threaded compliance landscape. After the 2021 winter storm and related regulatory inquiries, the client needed its compliance practices reviewed: Three distinct business lines each had their own compliance reporting practices. The client needed gaps in Federal, NERC, and ISO […]
Issue MidDel Consulting was engaged to review the comprehensive processes related to nominations, pathing, tracking burn volumes and storage volumes and to provide recommendations for process improvements and software enhancements. This effort was requested by front and mid office users, with specific focus on the time required to aggregate position information, update and remove schedules, […]
Issue The client is an unregulated utility with newly acquired gas- and coal-fired generation serving municipal and cooperative customers. The client needed an ETRM to manage the merchant activity of its new asset portfolio end to end: Requirements spanned deal capture, inventory valuation, risk and credit management, and final settlement. Its coal and gas inventory […]
Issue Our client, a retail electric provider, engaged MidDel Consulting to determine best course of action to improve reporting efficiency and operational business intelligence. MidDel was tasked to identify and build improved data integrations and reporting processes for use by key business areas. After review of current reporting and multiple process reviews, MidDel proposed a […]
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, 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 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 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 […]
