Margin Analyzer

Integ’s Margin Analyzer examines the relationship between actual margin and lost margin due to outages and derates. By examining the heat curves, the incremental cost curves, and the hourly LMP or system Lambda tied to each specific unit, the system shows the true economic impact of each outage or derate. Margin Analyzer shows how much margin the unit could have made by simulating a generation pattern if the event was avoided.

Benefits

• Explains gross margin variances to budget and forecasted estimate and assign gained or lost opportunity in the monthly “True up” process
• Helps to assess and address risk through PO or MO, preventative and predictive maintenance in order to increase profitability
• Provides incentives when considering a MO during lower priced periods in order to capture the maximum potential margin when the unit is dispatched during peak demand periods
• Assists management with identifying key drivers affecting plant profitability

Features

• Helps management to focus efforts on being available to generate when profit potential is high. Calculates lost opportunity revenue and margin per event, per hour.
• What-If Analysis: This functionality allows users to plan outages under certain market conditions and evaluate the economic results. Historical data can also be modified to create scenarios to assess the implication of changes in key performance metrics such as EFORp and EFORd.
• EFORp Analyzer: Users can calculate both historical and future EFORp values for financial P&L and estimating liabilities.
• Ease of customization: Integ recognizes that each client’s processes, data flows, and systems are unique. Margin Analyzer is a flexible, customizable system that will ensure that the system fits current processes and not the other way around. Corporations do not often realize or compute the switching costs from changing processes to meet the requirements of inflexible software.