ScheduleCore
ScheduleCore unifies bidding, scheduling, and e-Tagging in a hyper-efficient platform to optimize operations, maximize stakeholder value, and improve performance in volatile markets.
Interface, Automate & Bid to Enterprise Goals
Share data with 3rd-party or in-house tools. Select resources, market types, and scheduling entities (for single or multiple hours), then automatically create and seamlessly submit bids, schedules, financial contracts, e-Tags, and more.
Follow Bid Conditions & Get Real-Time Updates
Gain instant visibility into submitted bids by following their progress. Get immediate status alerts enabling proactive management and responsive market course corrections.
Save Time, Effort & Assure Compliance
Transform manual processes into efficient workflows to unleash creativity and provide more time for enterprise-enhancing tasks. Business rule validations ensure that bids and schedules meet market policies and regulations.
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ISO/RTO Bidding
Simplify the intricacies of creating base schedules and bid strings for energy and ancillary services into an effortless operation. Then, seamlessly transition tailored, optimized, automatically generated bids to ScheduleCore’s ISO/RTO Scheduling module for timely, accurate submission.
Core Capabilities
Integrate with Scheduling Tools
Bids are prepared and transitioned to PowerCore’s Scheduling module. Alternatively, ScheduleCore can be integrated with any third-party (or in-house developed) scheduling software.
Deploy “On the Go” Bids
Structure bids based on each resource, market, and hour. Position your organization to be ultra-responsive to markets with customized bidding approaches to meet (and exceed) enterprise objectives.
Tailor Bids to Optimize Enterprise Success
Deploy flexible, user-defined bidding strategies that optimize market performance and enterprise results.
Ensure Accuracy with “Proposed Bids”
Quickly evaluate and adjust bids before final submission.
Maintain Control with Bid Overrides
Replace auto-created bids when market conditions dictate needed changes. You remain in control while ScheduleCore does the heavy lifting.
“Power Settlements has been an excellent business partner, and has consistently gone above and beyond from a customer service standpoint. […] Power Settlements represents what a first-class vendor stands for.”
Xin Shane & James Dykes
Manager, EIM Settlements & Technology Operations
Avista Corporation
ISO/RTO Scheduling
Streamline the submission of bids, schedules, and financial contracts to market operators, transforming a time-consuming task into a precise, automated workflow. Receive post-submission, and real-time visibility into the status of each bid and schedule to enhance the efficacy of operational intelligence and ensure optimized market participation decisions.
Core Capabilities
Automate Imports with “ISO Downloader”
Bypass slower market portals to streamline data retrieval. Deploy PowerCore’s “ISO Downloader” module with its APIs for immediate integration for preset and customizable downloads, tailored to user schedules.
Integrate with ScheduleCore Bidding
Seamlessly connect with ScheduleCore Bidding, third-party, or in-house systems to auto-create and submit bid strings for energy and ancillary services.
Apply Detailed Schedule Entries
Replace manual data entry headaches with a fast, precise, easy method for inputting and transmitting base schedules for energy and ancillary service volumes.
Convergence Bid with Confidence
Ensure that your overall portfolio is fully optimized and that awards are maximized.
Assure Compliance with ISO Practices
Multiple validations cross-check entries with ISO business rules, ensuring adherence and minimizing rejection risk.
Bid Flexibly & with Optionality
Comprehensive bids and schedules are passed to the ISO collectively, or more granularly (e.g., market type and scheduling entities, specific hours, and more).
Use Unified Batch Uploads
Use Real-Time Market (RTM) options for single and multiple-hour submissions with one or more scheduling coordinators.
Receive Instant Notifications
Gain timely visibility into bid status, post-submission ISO amendments (and more), to evaluate and potentially adjust strategic choices and operational tactics.
Employ Efficiency Features
Interface shortcuts optimize staff time and effort (e.g., “Copy Forward” to extend bid strategies to future dates, and “Drag Values” to populate multiple hours).
Enable Self-Scheduling & Inter-SC Trading
Utilize advanced functionality for trading energy, ancillary services, and more.
Increase Efficiency,
Decrease Complexity
ScheduleCore simplifies front-office operations and maximizes enterprise performance.
E-Tagging
Revolutionize the management of tag lifecycles with a web-based, customized interface that improves operational efficiencies with advanced reporting and settlement automation capabilities.
Deployment Options
1. Full Implementation
Easily transition from an existing e-Tag Agent/Approval system to ScheduleCore E-Tagging, which aligns with NAESB/NERC standards and enhances connectivity with REST APIs for effortless system integration.
- Get full support for Tag Agent and Approval Services with comprehensive access to NERC registries.
- Navigate and manage e-Tags with an intuitive interface that improves data handling and digestion, with simple functions to create, validate, approve, and modify tags.
- Configure custom approval workflows, automatic denials, and manual review protocols.
- Diversify tag creation through bulk uploads, Excel integration, templates, or manual entry, ensuring flexibility and convenience.
2. Automated Reporting/Settlement
Tailor your organization’s tagging needs with this stand-alone implementation to automate data flows into settlement processes without manual calculations or adjustments.
- Use NAESB/NERC e-Tag Forwarding for RT tag integration. Enable APIs, custom reporting, and RT data flows into front-office and settlement processes.
- Utilize standard and custom reports for comprehensive monitoring (e.g., for Renewable Energy Credits, transmission usage/path monitoring, Net Scheduled Interchange, etc.).
- Advanced tag management enables templating, “on-hold” saving, (and more). Powerful searches simplify data handling and speed workflows.
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ScheduleCore’s simplifies the increasing complexity of participating in energy markets.