PowerCore Goes Live in the Northeast Settling Complex Transmission Invoices for Market Participants

Glendora, California – One of the largest investor-owned utilities in the United States and the largest transmission system owner/operator in New England (“Client”), has chosen the PowerCore™ software platform to streamline its end-to-end transmission billing and invoicing processes.

PowerCore is the mission-critical, bid-to-bill software platform from Power Settlements (a Yes Energy company). The Client selected PowerCore’s TransmissionCore module following a competitive, rigorous bidding process involving several leading energy industry software providers. PowerCore emerged as the Client’s choice by offering the most comprehensive, best-of-breed solution at the lowest total cost of ownership.

The Client and Power Settlements deployed PowerCore on its state-of-the-art hosted infrastructure on time and on budget, enabling the generation of transmission invoices in a more efficient, accurate, and timely manner. Further, the advanced functionality and processing speed of PowerCore now frees up valuable resources and time that the Client can redirect toward other crucial enterprise initiatives.

Jason Hebert, Senior VP of Power Settlements noted,

“Power Settlements is well known for providing complex settlement solutions for large investor-owned utilities, municipalities, and cooperatives in the West, and we are very excited to demonstrate its capabilities as we expand to markets in the East.”

This project is another compelling testament to the capabilities of PowerCore and the deep subject matter expertise of the Power Settlements team who have developed PowerCore to save ISO/RTO and bilateral market participants scarce staff and budgetary resources while offering them easy scalability for future growth in a rapidly evolving energy landscape.

Southern California Edison

“Southern California Edison (SCE) has been a happy client of Power Settlements since 2009. In 2024, and after careful consideration, we strategically migrated from the on-premise version of the PowerCore Platform to its cloud-based counterpart and couldn’t be happier with the results.

To give some context of scale, in 2023 alone, SCE settled and validated over $1 billion net ($9 billion gross) in California ISO (CAISO) charges leading to $65 million in successful disputes, using the thick (on-premise) version of PowerCore. One of the primary reasons for the change to its hosted environment was to ensure that the CAISO was accurately settling market charges and resolving inaccuracies and disputes efficiently, lowering costs for our customers. The hosted version of PowerCore has helped to enable this in several ways, including:

  1. SCE users have greatly benefitted from being able to better manage and more seamlessly (and accurately) validate market charges.
  2. PowerCore’s cloud version has helped streamline processing leading to successful disputes and savings, directly benefiting SCE customers.
  3. PowerCore’s hosted version with its enhanced application provides a better user experience facilitating easier data filtering and viewing capabilities.
  4. From a technical viewpoint, PowerCore’s cloud infrastructure has enabled faster and more frequent updates, keeping SCE at the forefront of technological advancements. It also provides unmatched flexibility, allowing our team to scale storage and CPU resources as-needed.
  5. By allowing Power Settlements personnel to handle support and maintenance of PowerCore in the cloud, SCE’s IT staff can focus more attention on other aspects of our business operations.

    The cloud-based PowerCore platform has been transformative for SCE. The benefits of quicker deployments, advanced user and technical functionality, and significant financial savings have had a profoundly positive impact on our business. We’re extremely satisfied with Power Settlements and their exceptional pre and post-go-live support, and we look forward to continued success together.

    Gita Razavi
    Sr. Advisor, CAISO Settlements & Market Analytics
    Southern California Edison