Case Studies

Carbon Tracking System

Issue The client is a leading U.S. renewable energy producer with significant West Coast market operations. Carbon emissions reporting had outgrown a manual, two-team Excel process: Two separate user groups manually pulled data for multiple monthly and annual emissions reports. As reporting volume grew, the process became inefficient and error-prone. The manual approach limited the […]
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Automation of Daily Reports

Issue A prominent renewable energy owner and operator, the client actively trades, schedules, and settles over 7,800 MW of wind, solar, and storage assets across multiple ISO/RTO markets in North America. The client relies on a daily trading position and P&L report generated each morning based on overnight updates from the Energy Trading and Risk […]
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TLC Improvements

Issue A prominent renewable energy owner and operator, the client actively trades, schedules, and settles over 7,800 MW of wind, solar, and storage assets across multiple ISO/RTO markets in North America. The client relies on a daily trading position report generated each morning based on overnight updates to the Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) […]
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Automation of Trade and Curve Monitoring

Issue The client is a prominent leading renewable energy owner and operator, actively trading, scheduling and settling over 7,800 MW of wind, solar and storage assets across multiple ISO / RTO markets in North America. The client relied on a manual process to track trade changes and price-curve valuation updates due to a limitation in […]
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Data Management for Fundamental Analysis

Issue The client is a renewable energy producer that relies on many data sources to forecast production and inform its trading desk. A web of disparate data feeds had become fragile and hard to maintain: Sources spanned public websites, private APIs, FTPs, and internally generated data. Feeds were processed through complex VBA Excel tools and […]
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ETRM Price Conversion Modernization

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 […]
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Human Capital Dashboard

Issue This client’s corporate executives did not have visibility into a broad range of human capital measurements. Although a Human Capital module operated within the company’s ERP framework, the reports were cumbersome and inefficient. Reporting required gathering information from 18 sources for 60 business units and each unit required 21 pivot tables consolidated into spreadsheets […]
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Consolidation of More Than 3,000 Reports

Issue The client is a Fortune 500 commodity trading firm running over 3,000 financial reports out of its ETRM. The sheer number of ETRM reports had become unmanageable: Many reports were redundant or inaccurate, producing 'multiple versions of the truth.' The excess volume dragged out month-end close. Finance needed a more efficient, accurate, and simplified […]
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ETRM System Integration Success Made Possible

Issue Our client, one of North America’s largest power producers, was in the midst of a corporate merger with another large power producer. Our client needed to integrate the acquired company’s ETRM system (Endur®) into our client’s ETRM system (Zainet®/Aligne™). In addition, all risk management reporting needed to be re-engineered to accommodate the acquired company’s […]
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