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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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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REC Inventory and Position Management

Issue The client owns one of the largest portfolios of renewable energy assets across North America. An aging, bespoke ETRM for the client's REC and carbon trading business had to be replaced: The client selected Hitachi's emerging TRMTracker for trading, confirmations, operations, inventory modeling, and settlement. Complex REC delivery behavior, RPS qualifications, and PPAs had […]
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ETRM Project Recovery

Issue The client owns a diversified portfolio of hydro, wind, solar, and storage renewable assets across North America. A challenged TRMTracker implementation needed to be turned around: Significant issues and gaps had accumulated in the implementation to date. The client had selected Hitachi's emerging TRMTracker but the rollout was faltering. Industry experts were needed to […]
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Comprehensive Energy Compliance Review

Issue The client is a renewable generation developer, owner, and operator whose rapid growth created a multi-threaded compliance landscape. After the 2021 winter storm and related regulatory inquiries, the client needed its compliance practices reviewed: Three distinct business lines each had their own compliance reporting practices. The client needed gaps in Federal, NERC, and ISO […]
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Endur Process Assessment

Issue MidDel Consulting was engaged to review the comprehensive processes related to nominations, pathing, tracking burn volumes and storage volumes and to provide recommendations for process improvements and software enhancements.   This effort was requested by front and mid office users, with specific focus on the time required to aggregate position information, update and remove schedules, […]
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Retail Operational Reporting

Issue Our client, a retail electric provider, engaged MidDel Consulting to determine best course of action to improve reporting efficiency and operational business intelligence. MidDel was tasked to identify and build improved data integrations and reporting processes for use by key business areas. After review of current reporting and multiple process reviews, MidDel proposed a […]
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Commercial Operations Systems Assessment

Issue The client operates an impressive portfolio of assets, consisting of hydro, wind, solar, and one thermal resource, across both the RTO and bilateral North American markets. Management of power markets, requires a wide-ranging combination of different people, processes, technology, and data to support the business objectives and the market requirements. At the beginning of […]
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ETRM Systems Consolidation

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 […]
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