March 8, 2011

Integ Enterprise Consulting, Inc. announces the launch of PowerBroker for New England ISO

The New England Energy Market consists of two markets, a Day-Ahead Energy Market and a Real-Time Energy Market.  In the Day-Ahead Energy Market, the New England ISO (ISONE) determines the least-cost means of satisfying the cleared Demand Bids, cleared Decrement Bids, Operating Reserve, Replacement Reserve, and other applicable Ancillary Services requirements of Market Participants, including the reliability requirements of the New England Control Area. 

Following the Day-Ahead Energy Market scheduling process, the ISO will also commit and/or de-commit Resources as needed, based upon the ISO’s forecast of actual loads for the next Operating Day. This will satisfy operating reserve and replacement reserve requirements of the New England control area by minimizing the cost to provide additional operating reserve, replacement reserve and/or additional local second contingency protection resources above what was scheduled in the Day-Ahead Energy Market, if required, as part of the ISO’s Real-Time Energy Market scheduling process. PowerBroker can reduce the amount of capacity originally scheduled in the Day-Ahead Energy Market  to avoid a Minimum Generation Emergency in Real-Time and provide other ancillary services requirements as required.

In Real-Time, the ISO monitors and controls the New England Control Area such that the least-cost means of satisfying the projected hourly energy, regulation, operating reserve, replacement reserve and other ancillary services requirements (as required), including the reliability requirements of the New England Control Area, are met. Supply Offers, Increment Offers, Demand Bids, External Transactions and Decrement Bids and purchase energy or related services in the Day-Ahead Energy Market and in the Real-Time Energy Market. 

Features of PowerGADS:

	Configuration Data: Management and submission of unit, schedule and fuel data.
	Cost Development: Ability to generate True cost and market compliance cost components.
	Bid Management: Management and submission of day-ahead/real-time generation bid, ancillary offer, regulation bid, bilateral, FTR, scheduling and demand/virtual bid management.
	Profit and Loss: Detailed view of various revenues and costs such as generation offers, demand bids, Inc/Dec virtual bids, the bilateral contracts and the FTRs tracked and calculated on as-operated basis in terms of Day-Ahead and Real-Time markets.
	Shadow Settlement: Ability to execute after-the-hour shadow settlement.
	ISO Portal: Ability to view every data point of each ISO system.
	Unit Dispatch: Optimum Unit dispatch forboth day ahead and real-time market.

About Integ Enterprise Consulting

Integ has been providing integrated software systems and consulting services for the energy sector since 1987 and has established itself as a leading supplier of web-enabled enterprise solutions for energy bidding, dispatch, scheduling and settlement as well as NERC reporting for all market participants. Integ's PowerSuite of web-enabled applications is currently being used by energy sector clients to participate in multiple Independent System Operator (ISO) zones throughout North America.


More information may be obtained by visiting www.IntegConsulting.com or by calling Integ directly at 973-642-2420.