PCI Australia
Offering an outage management system trusted worldwide
The PCI Outage Management System helps you increase efficiency and account for multiple workflows by streamlining communications between plant and operations personnel.
Modernize
Manage outages quickly and accurately
Built to simplify and modernize the outage process, making outage creation transparent to plant operators, planners, schedulers, and dispatchers. Easy to track and audit, while being sustainable and scalable.
Australia Case Study
Successful deployment for major energy company
See how PCI’s Outage Management System was implemented to optimize outage planning, boost flexibility, and strengthen IT capabilities for a leading Australian power generator. This major project provides insights into driving efficiency across coordination, tracking, compliance, and more. Request the case study to learn how PCI collaborated to master complex energy challenges in the Australian market.
Simplify
- Manage the entire outage lifecycle process, from the field to outage coordinator
- Increase outage agility with bulk outage operations
- Automate outage creation through interfaces with SADA and Historian systems
- Save time and reduce user errors by validating data and workflows
Modernize
- Easily record operating events for anytime-access and auditing
- Track the status of requests during different outage phases, quickly review and approve records
- Plan outages with Calendar and Gantt style visual tools
- Automate unit derates based on ambient weather conditions
Share
- Seamlessly connect to external systems like work management platforms and market operators, and share approved outage data across your enterprise
- Detailed reporting and analytics built into the product platform
- Leverage PCI’s outage management expertise in North American markets
- Adopt well established best practices across a large client base
Australian markets
National Electricity Markets (NEM)
With over 500 registered participants, the NEM spans Australia’s eastern and south-eastern coasts and comprises five interconnected states that also act as price regions: Queensland, New South Wales (including the Australian Capital Territory), South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania.
Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM)
Operated by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), the WEM supplies electricity to the southwest of Western Australia via the South West Interconnected System (SWIS).
Master your market
We have experience applying outage solutions across American markets, and we bring that experience and best practices to NEM to help you craft your workflows
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PCI’s OMS solution is packed with a rich set of standard features out of the box, while also allowing customization to meet specific client needs
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Alerts 03
Interaction throughout company 04
Assign and control access to outage information across the organization, providing easy insight into long-term outage plans and current operational status
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Outage summary filter 06
Risk reduction 07
Eliminate the risk of outage reporting non-compliance with alarms, email notifications and automatic workflows
Partnering to bring more solutions to the Australian market
In addition to the functionality we already have in the market, PCI have implemented a broad range of software in other global markets that we can partner with Australian companies to bring to the Australian market.
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- Our ETRM saves you time and money by consolidating multiple vendors and spreadsheets into a multi-commodity trading platform—all built and optimized specifically for ISO trading.
- GenTrader® offers multiple modeling capabilities that provide near real-time decision support, forecasting, long-range planning, and analytics.
- Automate and optimize settlements and billing processes to save time, find discrepancies, and easily manage the changing demands of an increasingly complex industry.
- Bring your physical supply and transportation contracts together and get complete control over path selection, strike options and pipeline communications.
- Eliminate the need for clunky spreadsheets and complex workflows and effectively track, calculate and verify all of your system megawatt hours.
- Bring your physical supply and transportation contracts together and get complete control over path selection, strike options and pipeline communications.
- Effectively plan, schedule and manage all grid outages while meeting NERC requirements with our comprehensive transmission outage management toolkit.
- Experience a modern, intuitive user interface, time-saving automations, and dynamic visualizations from a system that has been operating reliably without interruption since 2017.
- e-Tag+ sets a new standard for energy tagging software. It’s a functionality-rich and secure application that fully integrates with other applications to manage downstream workflows such as power scheduling, transmission operations, billing, and real-time balancing.
- Solve the imbalance between generation and the interchange within the Balancing Authority in real time. Review the total interchange, total generation, and total excesses or shortfalls of energy, alongside solutions to reduce any imbalances.
A Global Leader
5 continents
PCI is the number one software supplier to energy marketing and trading organizations in North America and one of the most successful in the world with a presence on 5 of the 7 continents.
$785K
According to a commissioned review of the business impact, a PCI customer saved $785,000 using the PCI OMS outages, weather, and generation forecast data.
15% Reduction in Work
A PCI customer benefited from an annual reduction of 15% person-hour each rate-making period, which alone amounted to an annual savings of $94K.
Providing a Local Presence
Here for you with expert,
on-the-ground support
We bring global market experience and full-spectrum software solutions to Australia operations with our local, growing team that’s backed by an internationally recognized company.
Market Expertise
- We monitor and respond to market changes and updates so you don’t have to worry about nasty surprises.
Local PCI Rep
- Help is never far away thanks to your dedicated PCI Australia rep who can meet with you face to face or connect you with optional 24/7 support.
Full Service Software
- We have a breadth of configurable and compliant solutions beyond OMS so you can simplify by employing just one vendor.
Product Webinar
How OG&E automates outage management using PCI
Modules
The comprehensive outage management system
Journal Module
Log and track any asset issues. Record chronologies of daily business events, perform regulatory compliance, and track internal workflows with our fully configurable and customizable journal log.
Scheduling Module
Automate the scheduling process so users can import, review and modify schedule data using PCI’s system or other applications. Verify schedule consistency with outages or derates.
Plant Instructions Module
Enhance communications between dispatchers and field personnel by providing an audited messaging system to support real-time three-way communications.
Plant Interface Module
Plant personnel can review and update operational data driving day-ahead and real-time market offers. They can then monitor and report on market-clearing results and prices in the DA/RT modes.
GADS Module
Better manage NERC GADS compliant outages, derates and reserve shutdown events while making those events available to other PCI or third-party applications.
Product Video
PCI outage management overview video
This three minute video tour gives you a high-level overview of the PCI Outage Management System
Proudly built on the PCI Platform
At PCI, we aim for our technology to hit the sweet spot between reliability, performance, flexibility and ease of use.
Trust through transparency
"I see our PCI relationship more like a peer or a teammate than just a provider or supplier."
- Juan Guichard, CEO, Ammper Energia
More time for analysis
"We're able to do our jobs faster and easier, and it just gives us time to focus on analyzing the data, instead of preparing data."
- Brad Lafler, Market Optimization Lead, Lincoln Electric System
Unified platform and team
"I think the fact that multiple departments can use the same tool, it kind of helps bring all of us together speaking the same language."
- John Mayhew, Senior Real Time Trader, PNM
Integrated suite of tools
"Having one vendor where all of those different tools and solutions work with each other, it just made sense for us instead of having a vendor to do this and a vendor to do that."
- Jason Smith, Senior Engineer, Santee Cooper
Rapid ROI realized
"PCI's integrated solutions have delivered significant cost savings and efficiency gains for Santee Cooper. Their tools and support have been invaluable to our business."
- Chris Moore, Business Analyst, Santee Cooper
Tailored software solutions
"If PCI isn't able to find a solution directly in their products, we work with them in several different capacities to come up with customizable solutions in their product. And those have worked very well, even through upgrades in their system."
- Tucker Smith, Sr. Market Coordinator, Basin Electric
