Utilicast provided Grid Communications and Standards consulting for a Southwestern utility’s Distributed Energy Resource Management System (“DERMS”) project. The scope included client meetings, a series of workshops and documentation of communication risks, requirements and best practices.
Engagements
September 8, 2020
Utilicast is providing a large Southwestern United States utility with IT, change management and subject matter expertise to transition from a contract path-based ATC/TTC calculation (NERC MOD-29) to a flow-based methodology (NERC MOD-30).
September 3, 2020
Utilicast was engaged by a Southwestern United States utility to implement an aggregated forecast repository using PI and integrate this with external forecast sources. This also included using PI to calculate a new internal short-term and a rolling 7-day ahead forecast, and an automated system to provide continuous forecast accuracy and benchmarking metrics.
September 1, 2020
Utilicast was hired to provide a CAISO Energy Imbalance Market gap assessment for a large Western United States utility.
September 1, 2020
Utilicast provided strategic and technical support to a vertically integrated utility in the Northwest United States on various transmission systems for interconnection and transmission service for new self-build and acquired generation projects. Utilicast also performed analysis of generation interconnection and delivery.
August 26, 2020
Utilicast was brought on by a Generation Owner in Southwestern United States to advise on combined cycle modeling solutions for CAISO participation. This included exploring opportunities to enhance the financial values through better modeling under the multi-stage generation model (MSG), including the registered cost basis.
August 24, 2020
A software provider has engaged Utilicast to advise on new ETRM development efforts. This included reviewing their overall software roadmap, feature definitions, trade and offer capture and management and risk management.
August 17, 2020
Utilicast was hired to provide project management and implementation support of critical EMS applications for a large Western United States utility. These EMS application improvements will enable the entity to make significant improvements with modeling, monitoring and analysis capabilities.
August 1, 2020
A Market Operator has contracted Utilicast for testing their settlement management system calculations.
August 1, 2020
Utilicast experts implemented data integrity reporting for GE APM/Predix which provides internal application stakeholders and support KPIs and troubleshooting tools to monitor plant data flows and track anomalies.