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 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 an energy company running separate ETRMs for the front office and for mid/back office. The client wanted to consolidate two ETRMs onto a single platform: One system handled front-office deal entry while another handled risk and settlements. The split arrangement carried excess cost and operational inefficiency. Consolidation promised to save thousands […]
Issue Our client, a large refined products blending company, implemented an ETRM system a number of years ago. The original software that was implemented failed to meet the needs around inventory valuation and reporting. This has resulted in manual work arounds for an extended period of time. The issue around blending and inventory management was […]
Issue The client is a mid-sized retail power and gas company carrying a $1M+ annual legacy development and support budget. The client questioned whether continuing to develop its in-house systems was justified: Legacy development and support ran in excess of $1 million per year. The systems could not even produce a daily P&L except via […]
Issue The client is an energy company and the first adopter of a vendor's new invoicing module. The newly adopted invoicing module could not apply cash payments: The gap blocked receivables and payables tracking, aging, and credit reporting. As the first adopter, the client had no vendor-supplied workaround. The missing function held the entire back-office […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
