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 Our client had recently started participating in MISO South having previously been participating in Entergy pre-merger. Since joining MISO South, Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch were producing less than optimal results. Solution Our consultant combined his deep functional knowledge of organized power markets with his operational and technical competency to provide a solution that […]
Issue Our client’s retail business was expanding and having difficulty keeping up with its growth. The client determined that if it was going to thrive in this competitive market, the business would need to automate and streamline their processes. The client decided they needed to develop a retail system to support the ordering of usage […]
Issue A client had pricing data stored among multiple databases, ETRM systems and spreadsheets. There were too many sources of pricing data to support, which created issues in the daily P&L due to overwriting price data across systems. Solution Our consultants combined extensive trading and risk management experience to create an RFP and guide the […]
Issue Our client was considering the deployment of a portfolio risk analytics system throughout its global organization, but first wanted to prove the software’s applicability to the client’s unique set of challenges. The software needed to do the following: organize and store information obtained from multiple sources and in various formats; calculate and report exposures […]
Issue Our client’s method of reporting planned and projected power generation data consisted of five spreadsheets with VBA code to extract data from various sources. Reporting was run on a daily basis and required a user to open each spreadsheet, enter data and run the report. A separate process sent the files to an FTP […]
Issue A mid-size Northeast retail power and gas company had the opportunity, as part of their organizational strategic portfolio growth plan, to bid on two books of business that were up for auction. Books included power and gas, residential and commercial contracts, and fixed and variable price volumes. The client wanted to determine whether they […]
Issue Our client traded commodity physical instruments and financial derivatives that made up a complex portfolio and position. The credit department found their current credit reporting to be inaccurate and not always very useful when assessing their credit exposure. Because of inaccurate reporting, the client may have been exceeding credit limits without knowing. Solution MidDel’s […]
Issue Our client had a growing NGL trading book that was modeled by the front office in spreadsheets, outside of its ETRM system. Since NGL deals were not captured in the client’s ETRM system, nor was it supported in the software “out of the box,” the mid office had no visibility into risk exposures or […]
Issue A large Northeast generation company required a replacement for its front office load forecasting, bidding, scheduling and dispatch platform as the technology of the current application was coming to the end of its useful life. The client wanted to implement a vendor package for the bid submission and dispatch component, however, due to the […]
