POWERBROKER

Energy Market Bidding System

PowerBroker is a flexible and comprehensive web-based front office trading system, integrating financial  and physical trading with all RTO/ISO markets. The system provides a common interface for all trading business needs, eliminating data duplication, reducing errors, and streamlining the trading process. With comprehensive cost development process, trading, RTO management, scheduling, generation and load management, risk, shadow settlements and reporting capabilities, plus industry standard J2EE architecture, PowerBroker is the leading trading solution in the power industry.

Benefits

Proven, secure, enterprise-level system that can handle up to several hundred users. Centralized, web-based system allows users distributed over wide geographic locations to utilize one system for all their requirements, from data collection to analysis, and reporting. Role-based security allows for simple administration. Multi-ISO platform allows users to trade across different ISOs using a single application. 

• Cost Development: Users can perform cost/bid analysis using various cost components calculated using Compliance or True Cost rules. Profit and Loss Module: Users employ this module for market strategy, financial cash flow and other operational and financial activities. Load profile module allows users to calculate proper demand and virtual bid.
  
•  Ease of customization: We recognize that each client’s processes, data flows, and systems are unique. PowerBroker is a flexible, customizable system that will ensure that the system fits your 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. 
  
•  Strategy-based Bid Development: Users can define own strategy and profiles for various bid development. Integration with ISO systems: PowerBroker allows reporting of every data point across all the ISOs. This allows users to analyze data using different views and metrics.
  

Features

• 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 for both day-ahead and real-time market.