Maximize the return on your energy storage investment
Automatically co-optimize energy storage assets including batteries (BESS) within a broader portfolio and leverage effective bidding strategies within ISO and bilateral markets with a sophisticated and proven portfolio optimization tool.
Smart Optimizations
Optimize the efficiency and profitability of energy storage
PCI’s Gentrader® seamlessly incorporates battery energy storage systems (BESS) and other energy storage assets into near real-time decision support, forecasting, long-range planning, and analytics.
Improve Efficiency
- Optimally balance renewable resource intermittency
- Relieve transmission congestion by shifting transmission system peaks
- Confidently offer ancillary services for balancing load and generation in real-time
Increase Profitability
- Maximize your opportunities to buy wholesale electricity while the locational marginal price is low and sell it back when prices are highest
- Reduce costly demand charges by shaving peak load, smoothing uneven load profiles
Plan with Confidence
- Delay, reduce or avoid costly T&D system upgrades due to demand growth
- Model your ability to defer costly investments required to meet peak consumption demand
PCI BatteryTrader™
More profitable batteries
Automate and optimize your battery energy storage systems (BESS) while boosting profits effortlessly with PCI BatteryTrader™, a module of PCI’s industry-leading GenTrader® product.
Portfolio Management
- Comprehensive view of multiple battery assets
- Real-time monitoring of battery state of charge
- Performance tracking across different nodes/locations
- Support for standalone, co-located, and hybrid configurations
Smart Bidding Strategies
- Automated bid creation for day-ahead and real-time markets
- Customizable charging/discharging price thresholds
- Price forecast-based optimization
- Multiple breakpoint bidding options
Technical Benefits
- Web-based interface
- Real-time data updates
- Customizable dashboards
- Integration with market systems
- Historical data analysis
Performance Analytics
- Day-ahead projected P&L
- Real-time deviation tracking
- Historical performance analysis
- Revenue optimization metrics
Market Integration
- Automated bid submission
- Real-time market optimization
- Ancillary services support
Product Webinar
Challenges integrating utility-scale battery storage in wholesale markets
Learn about the battery storage market from Richard Dillon, Market Policy Technical Director of SPP, about how to successfully implement a battery project from Craig Horne, Managing Director of Wellhead Electric Co, and about the efficiency opportunities of enabling energy storage projects with properly integrated software from President and COO of PCI, Javier Martin.
Sustainable Solutions
A complete battery and energy storage solution
From optimizing your portfolio to after-the-fact analytics, our full-spectrum software offers an end-to-end solution for BESS.
Optimize your entire portfolio, including:
Daily operational planning
Fuel burn forecasting
Asset valuation and acquisition
Post-analytics
Transaction structuring
Emissions
Power plant upgrade impacts
Hydro generation including cascaded and pumped storage
Thermal generation including combined-cycle
Renewable generation
Real-time pricing
Market prices: power, fuel, ancillary services, emissions
Complex option and forward contracts
Fuel constraints and energy-limited options
O&M optimization
Product Video
Optimizing battery storage in day-ahead & real-time markets
Learn how our GenTrader® software models batteries and the benefits it brings in this 8 minute video tour of our energy storage optimization capabilities.
Sustainable Solutions
A proven partner for navigating the sustainable energy transition
PCI is a trusted partner to energy companies around the world with a thirty-year track record of rapidly adapting to the ever-changing energy landscape and policies.
Master Increasing Complexity
- Manage more generation units, contracts, and trades with the same resources through smart automation
- Respect license and environmental requirements by including them in all planning horizons
- Successfully integrate renewable assets into your portfolio with systems and procedures built to accommodate them
- Trade and incorporate new market instruments as they’re introduced
Capture Emerging Opportunities
- Maximize the life of your battery assets with State of Charge Management
- Take advantage of the opportunity to trade new commodities like energy credits
- Reliably incorporate weather-dependent renewable assets with confidence through industry-leading forecasting
Manage New Risks
- Make better capital allocation decisions about renewable assets and batteries with more accurate load forecasts
- Track and document your environmental commitments through emissions and greenhouse gas tracking
- Mitigate increased price risks from spikes and negative prices
By the Numbers
1-3% average production cost savings
Our customers enjoy very significant benefits from optimizing their portfolios, on average saving somewhere between one and three percent of the production costs.
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
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Implemented in the following markets:
North America
- CAISO (California ISO)
- ERCOT (Texas ISO)
- ISO-NE (ISO New England)
- MISO (Midwest ISO)
- NYISO (New York ISO)
- PJM Interconnection (PA, NJ, MD)
- SPP (Southwest Power Pool)
- US Bilateral Markets
- Canada (AESO, IESO)
- MEM (Mexico)
