Integ Consulting offers a comprehensive suite of applications to help utilities better manage their generation portfolio. Our applications integrate seamlessly to allow users to enter data once and then have it become available where needed, minimizing errors and allowing data to flow throughout the system to various groups.


Companies can choose which modules they require in their system, while each module is fully customizable. This way, we tailor our software to fit each company's needs and processes.  To meet the high-level needs of clients specializing in Outage Management , Integ recommends the following PowerSuite applications :

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PowerGADS
PowerDART
PowerManager
Margin Analyzer

Need more options? Build your own custom suite with additional integrative technology such as Fuel Management and Profit and Loss Analysis. View our entire PowerSuite for a comprehensive view of available tools. 

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• Outage Management: Ability to request outage events, create real-time/future plant outage events, forecast limits and submission of outage information to various ISOs.
• Dispatch Instruction: Communication of dispatch instruction between plants and dispatchers; Forecast real-time instructions using compliance or economic base points; Indicator showing financial return on suggested instructions; Notification of performance deviation from the suggested instruction; Consolidated view of plant's real-time operating conditions.
• Log Book Management: Administration of operational logs (Dispatcher/Supervisor/Shift Logs); Logging of phone call conversations.
• Unit Capabilities: Allows plant operators to review capabilities and request modifications with one source application; Validation of capabilities against operating conditions of the plant.
• Plant Startup: Forecasts start-up schedules for day-ahead bidding; Modifies start-up schedules in the event of change in operating conditions.

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• Single system to capture and submit real time outage information to all ISOs in the United States.
  
• ISO synchronization: Users can submit outage information using ISO software or calling the ISO dispatcher and the system synchronizes itself real-time with other ISO systems.
• Dashboard view: Users can view graphical fleet wide or unit specific generation position for various time periods.
  
•  Integration with market operation systems: System updates hourly limits real-time in ISO market systems in the event of a generation outage.

• Add/Modify/Delete generation outage tickets. 
  
• Easily create IRC tickets, and gain access to real-time synchronization with ISOs/internal Systems  Graphical representation of fleet wide unit generation position.

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• Once schedule outages occur in real time, they move into the GADS system. Upon collection, all data is validated using NERC Level 1 and Level 2 diagnostics.
• Once validated, the data is used for several purposes, including internal reporting; for example, the Station Performance and Generating Outage Rate Program.
• PowerGADS then submits this gathered data to an ISO/RTO or the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) using standard "card" formats.

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• The Ad Hoc Reporting Tool allows users to quickly create custom reports on the fly using over 100 data types. Users can save queries for future reports and further ease. 
• Integ offers a comprehensive set of reports off-the-shelf, and Integ can also include custom formatted reports.

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• 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

• 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.

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SYSTEM BENEFITS

ELIMINATE

Enhance Productivity

Reduce Personnel Effort

Greatly Improve Data Quality

Eliminate Reliance on Spreadsheets
and Manual Calculations

Control User Access Rights

Unify Multiple Systems

Reduce Risk Exposure

Ensure Accountability

Manually intensive data gathering

Manual data entry into multiple systems

The arduous process of internally keeping up with NERC and ISO requirements

Pulling report data from multiple sources

Various groups using the same data points independently will yield different values and outputs

Inflexible Reporting