Case Studies

Asset Acquisition and Integration of Scheduling and e-Tagging

Issue The client is an industry-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 acquired a new 80 MW solar facility with a power purchase offtake agreement in the western interconnection of the United States. […]
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Outage Manager for Unit Outage Analysis

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 […]
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ISO System Administration Dashboard

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 […]
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ISO/RTO Operational Assessment

Issue The client is a power generator that had recently moved into MISO South after participating in Entergy pre-merger. Since joining MISO South, Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch were producing less-than-optimal results: Operating parameters, start-up and no-load costs, and heat-rate settings had not been re-tuned for the new market. Sub-optimal offers cost the client margin […]
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OSIsoft PI Transmission and Generation Dashboard

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 […]
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