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 MidDel Consulting was approached by a Municipal Utility in California to conduct a systems delivery assessment to determine the recommended course of action to improve their systems capabilities required to support entering the Energy Imbalance Market (EIM). MidDel conducted a bottom-up analysis of their Settlements, Trading, and Risk groups by meeting with key stakeholders […]
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 […]
Issue The client is a municipal electric provider replacing an outdated ETRM with limited internal resources.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 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 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 wholesale power and natural gas trading operation replacing two internally built trade-entry systems. Two home-grown deal-entry systems, integrated with SunGard's Aligne, had to be replaced due to technical obsolescence: The client chose Allegro for deal entry, interfaced to Aligne for risk management. The internally built systems limited the business's ability […]
Issue Our client viewed a web dashboard that displayed real time readings of transmission and generation information on a public website. The information was presented graphically to the user through dials and linear gauges. This client requested to provide similar capabilities in-house while maintaining a similar dashboard. Solution Our consultant reviewed several […]
Issue Our client did not have an operational user-friendly Business Intelligence tool. Two years earlier they had attempted to install SAP Business Objects incorporating Active Directory with Single Sign On. Without a viable tool, users were only given the option to work with BEx queries in a limited portal and without flexibility. Access to the […]
Issue The client is an IPP on a major ETRM overhaul with need to convert complex price data between old and new schemas. A price-data conversion program had been built but never tested: Differences between the old and new schemas had been spotted, but their full extent was unknown. Unvalidated conversions put the integrity of […]
