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Simplify and streamline energy accounting
Effectively track, calculate, and verify all of your system megawatt hours with reliable and scalable software. No more clunky spreadsheets and complex workflows.
Benefits
Eliminate drudge work and focus on adding value
We’ve worked closely with our customers over decades to build energy accounting software that aligns with industry best practices while incorporating innovations that save time and help you to identify ways to save money.
Better Data
- Improve your meter data quality by comparing multiple data sources
- Audit with confidence – all data revisions are automatically recorded
- Get deeper into your data with multiple levels of granularity, out-of-the-box and custom reporting
Save Money and Time
- Improve efficiency by ensuring full utilization of transmission assets
- Save money by finding and reducing Unaccounted For Energy (UFE)
- Automatically identify potential meter errors reducing needless field tech dispatches.
- Automate month-end reconciliation and true-ups so you can focus on adding value
Streamline Workflows
- Efficiently manage ISO communication for meter data submissions and downloads
- Customize permission controls and dashboards by user
- Make meter data review and tracking easier with intuitive screen features including comparison screens, commenting fields and tree views
Customer Testimonial
Identifying issues faster with automated workflows
By implementing PCI’s Energy Accounting solution, Santee Cooper transitioned from manual processes using spreadsheets and access databases to robust automated workflows. This allows Santee Cooper to identify data issues much more quickly, saving significant staff time and resources.
By the Numbers
23 MW per hour reduction in unaccounted for energy
$1 million a year saved by eliminating bad meter data
75% fewer meters required manual reads
Product Webinar
How Duke Energy automates Energy Accounting workflows using PCI
Functionality
The complete energy accounting solution
PCI calculates and accounts for
- Generation and loads
- Dynamic interconnections
- Pseudo-tied generation and load
- Scheduled flows in and out of any area
- Inadvertent energy
Key functionality
- Import meter data
- Prioritize meter data
- Track discrepancies
- Categorize contracts with metadata
- Configure meters
- Secure user permission
- Review, validate and submit meter data to ISOs
Client Testimonial
"PCI's staff have been phenomenal. The people that have worked with us on issues and enhancement requests are incredibly responsive. The support our business and IT users have received has been absolutely unbelievable."
Client Manager for Energy Accounting
Integrations
Integrated for powerful efficiencies
PCI Energy Accounting interfaces with upstream and downstream (physical, telemetered and accounting) systems, with all data versions and updates stored to preserve auditing requirements.
Consolidate Crucial Data
- Connect PCI Energy Accounting software to scheduling, EMS, Weather and MDM systems
- Optimize monitoring operations by dispatchers and traders
- Close company books more efficiently by consolidating data in one tool
Integrate with PCI’s Transmission Billing
- Generate invoice and checkout reports to transmission customers
- Process shadow invoices received from other transmission providers
- Integrate with General Ledger systems
Product Video
Energy Accounting overview video
This three minute video tour gives you a high-level overview of our energy accounting software
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Implemented in the following markets:
- Australia (AEMO)
- CAISO (California ISO)
- Canada (AESO, IESO)
- ERCOT (Texas ISO)
- ISO New England
- MEM (Mexico)
- MISO
- New York ISO
- PJM Interconnection
- SPP (Southwest Power Pool)
- US Bilateral Markets