Issue
The client is a power-market participant whose system admins monitor the ISO's day-ahead processes.
System admins needed real-time visibility into the ISO's day-ahead processes and studies:
- Readings had to be surfaced on an internal website so admins could act proactively.
- Missing a timely offer to the power market carried direct financial penalties.
- Manual monitoring could not reliably catch problems before deadlines.
Solution
After weighing PCI GSMS options against custom builds, we chose a fast, web-based solution:
- Built a multi-page dashboard in Visual Studio 2012 Web Parts with a live grid and graphs.
- Developed specialized queries to aggregate day-ahead data and sharpen the presentation.
- Delivered in a few weeks, then refined it into the client's standard for day-ahead and real-time operations control.
Result
Daily admin review cut from 3.5 hours to 40 minutes - and the dashboard caught a network failure in time to avert $450,000 in missed-submittal fines.
Real-time visibility turned a manual morning check into proactive control, directly protecting the client's timely offers to the power market.
“Our consultant was one of the most intelligent people I have ever dealt with.”
Director of Accounting
MidWest Company
Key Takeaways
- Real-time visibility pays for itself as risk avoidance. A live day-ahead monitoring dashboard cut daily admin review from 3.5 hours to 40 minutes and caught a network failure in time to avert $450,000 in missed-submittal fines.
- Monitoring should surface problems before they cost money, not report them after. A purpose-built operations dashboard turns manual morning checks into proactive control - transferable to any ISO market participant working against hard submission deadlines.
Ready to do the same?
Missing an ISO submission deadline can cost six figures. MidDel builds the real-time dashboards that catch problems before the market does. Let's talk.
