We provide web-enabled enterprise solutions for energy bidding, dispatch, scheduling and settlement as well as NERC reporting for all market participants.
SYSTEM
PowerPLANT is a multi-tier, J2EE-based web application that incorporates the web browser as the application client, requiring no client-side installation. This architecture ensures portability across diverse environments, provides an open interface, and leverages and extends existing assets.
Plant Dispatch, Communication and Control System
PowerPLANT is a real-time command, control and communication system between the generation plants and central operations center. It manages all the plant-related outage events and activities, dispatch instructions, event logs, capabilities and reporting into one solution.
Benefits
Consolidates outage, log, plant status and dispatch instruction events into a single plant management process.
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 thier 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.
Integrates the entire outage management process between the central office and the various ISO systems.
Accomodates flexible processes by allowing users to define their own plant event parameters and process rules.
Offers a flexible, customizable, configurable system that will fit into current processes and not the other way around.
Consolidated plant status reporting and provides management a snapshot of plant information during any given time period.
Only solution on the market which integrates all key processes between plants and commercial operations.
Functionality
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.
Reporting: Generates various fixed daily plant reports plus ad-hoc reporting capability.
