POWERSPARK

PowerSpark is a market dependent generation cost development system.  PowerSpark estimates a unit’s substantive energy production cost for marked bidding and unit dispatch based on historical and recent expenditure patterns.  It maintains unit parameters that are related to the equipment efficiency and operating constraints that may affect the production outcome.
 

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.
• Supports the large quantity of data that flows through numerous processes during the short-term planning phase and real-time operations.
• Flexibility to capture and maintain all fuel related components required to calculate the different generation costs for each market entered.
• Automated interfaces with internal and external source systems where possible and mass data import or manual entry capabilities.
• Enhanced GUI (graphical user interface) providing single-screen access to multiple applications with drill down searching capability allowing fast and easy access to specific information.
• On-line history of historical records that can be accessed for immediate query, reporting and analysis.
• Employs business engines, stand-alone programs that transform data according to predefined business rules and are designed to offer flexibilities in extending and amending the business rules.

Features

• Ability to capture and maintain all components used to calculate fuel related costs across all ISO markets (currently PJM, SPP, ERCOT, & MISO).
• Ability to define and maintain Cost Development Policies for each market based on: Weighted Average Fuel Costs, Replacement Fuel Costs, True Fuel Costs, User Defined Costs and CDTF Fuel Costs.
• Ability to define and update costing methodology for each market as changes occurs.
• Ability to define existing standard reports as well as have ad hoc reporting capabilities.
• Ability to perform “What If” Scenarios by retrieving & modifying data from one of the standard policy dataset.
• Ability to define and maintain Cost Development Policies for each market.