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Software Solutions and Services for Your Energy Enterprise

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About Us

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Companies turn to PCI software because we understand the evolving needs of ISO market participants as well as non-ISO players. PCI recognizes all parts of your business are critical and we work to ensure our solutions continually incorporate the latest technologies as well as market rule and procedural changes to make sure your business runs smoothly. PCI delivers world-class solutions that your IT and business users can quickly and easily utilize to optimize workflows, interdepartmental communication and overall operations.

PCI clients include: • Small to large investor-owned utilities

• Municipal and cooperative utilities

• Independent power producers

• Trading and marketing organizations

PCI is the premier, one-stop provider of essential software solutions for energy supply, trading and marketing organizations. Companies utilize PCI products to capitalize on their portfolio capabilities in order to minimize costs while maximizing market opportunities and profits.

In a time when other energy industry software companies are changing ownership and management, PCI has always remained stable. We are a privately owned, debt-free company with the same core management team in place since our incorporation in 1992.

Originally a generation optimization software company, we have organically grown and expanded our solutions suite to encompass all mission-critical functions including bidding, scheduling, settlement, deal management, asset operations, data warehousing, energy accounting and business intelligence. Through continually engaging our clients and actively listening to their needs and feedback, PCI continues the steady growth of our staff and our comprehensive product offering.

More than 50% of the generation capacity in the U.S. is scheduled and optimized using PCI software solutions. Our client base includes more than half of the leading Fortune 500 generation companies who use PCI to reduce their operational costs and maximize revenues.

Market Leadership

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ISO Market Participant

Plants optimized using PCI software

Non-ISO Participant

Location with Multiple PCI Clients

ISO-NE

AESO

IESO

ISO Market Participant

Plants optimized using PCI software

Non-ISO Participant

Location with Multiple PCI Clients

ISO-NE

AESO

IESO

PCI supplies software solutions for every North American ISO market participant, for non-ISO participants and for international companies both inside and outside of controlled market operations.

PCI's solution framework is known as the Generation Supply Management System (GSMS) and covers a broad array of capabilities meant to address the various business needs of your enterprise.

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PCI products are built on a common platform that enables seamless integration across all parts of your enterprise. We leverage our highly experienced and talented staff together with a powerful and highly flexible solutions platform to provide the right fit for your team. Hosted and non-hosted options are available, and PCI works very closely with you to understand your unique business needs in order to tailor the right solution to meet or exceed those requirements.

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PCI Software Solutions

ASSET/PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION

ISO BIDDING ANALYTICS & OPTIMIZATION

TRADING & SCHEDULING

DEAL MANAGEMENT & eTAGGING

SETTLEMENTS

ENERGY ACCOUNTING

ASSET OPERATIONS (including Outage Management)

DATA WAREHOUSE

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI)

SYSTEM INTEGRATION & AUTOMATION

As knowledge is spread across your organization, diverse pieces of data come together to optimize decision-making and reveal hidden operational and workflow savings, thus maximizing return on investment. The prominent features of PCI GenPortal® include:• Robust system integration with open API• Data Management inside PCI’s Datamart• Task automation for real-time, day-ahead and

long-term operations• Secure web interface with configurable dashboards• Support for XML and web services• Tailored reporting and application development• Extensible technology for evolving needs PCI GenPortal® is built upon the latest web technology to easily facilitate: • System connectivity• Event triggering• Process automation• Data storage • Custom interface development

PCI GenPortal®

PCI GenPortal® is the robust web-based platform for all PCI applications and has built-in functionality that streamlines and automates workflows in addition to providing Business Process Management (BPM). GenPortal® delivers management dashboards, enterprise automation, customized applications and tailored features to your entire enterprise, allowing optimization of all front to back office functions. GenPortal® ensures data is fed accurately and quickly to all systems and applications, ultimately increasing the value of the information it generates and disseminates to your staff.

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PCI GenTrader® is used for numerous modeling applications inside or outside of ISO markets including: • Daily operational planning• Fuel burn forecasting• Asset valuation and acquisition• Post analytics• Transaction structuring• Assessing emissions (and emissions compliance) impacts• Assessing impacts of potential plant upgrades• Advanced hydro modeling• Renewable portfolio optimization• Real-time pricing• O&M Optimization (LTSA)• Demand Response PCI GenTrader® delivers:• Optimized study results for simple to complex portfolios• Insightful information that results in profitable decisions• Advanced automation and seamless integration with PCI’s

entire enterprise IT platform as well as third party systems

PCI GenTrader®

PCI GenTrader® is widely acknowledged as the industry-leading solution for generation portfolio optimization. GenTrader® enables power generation companies to better compete and profit in today’s volatile energy market by providing near real-time decision support, short-to-long range planning and much more. Since 1992, PCI GenTrader® has evolved to encompass numerous important breakthroughs in simulation technology and is designed to ensure consistency in optimization planning across any time horizon from intra-hour out to multiple years in the future.

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ISO Communication• Data exchange between the market participant and

ISO for all aspects of the bid-to-bill process. LMP Forecasting and Management• Create and organize LMP forecasts• Maintain a “similar-day” profile library Bid Formulation• Create and save multiple bidding strategies appropriate to

different market conditions

• Automatically bid and offer prices and quantities to reflect changes in fuel costs, heat rates, etc.

Bid Evaluation• Day-ahead and real-time bid analysis• Day-ahead adjustment period analysis• Bidding strategy P&L forecasting• ISO market award validation• Multi-case analysis Comprehensive Settlement• Generate next-day preliminary settlements• Create shadow settlements and verify ISO invoices• Submit and track disputes

PCI GenManager®

PCI GenManager® allows any market participant to automate the entire bid-to-bill process for every North American ISO. GenManager® incorporates LMPs and supports analysis modes for day-ahead and real-time bidding. The software’s modular web services architecture provides flexibility allowing for quick responses to varying market conditions as well as an interface with any data source or third-party systems.

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PCI Energy Accounting simplifies complex business requirements in order to more effectively track, calculate and verify all megawatt hours. Calculate and account for:• Generation and loads• Dynamic interconnections• Pseudo-tied generation and load• Scheduled flows in and out of any area• Inadvertent energy PCI’s Energy Accounting Solution is specifically designed to interface with upstream and downstream (physical, telemetered and accounting) systems with all data versions and updates stored to preserve auditing requirements. The system is configurable by meter to support manual and triggered calculations as well as multiple meter data sources, comparisons and exception reporting. PCI Energy Accounting integrates with your existing systems for scheduling, EMS, weather and MDMA, as it allows you to:• Manage meter activities and identify metering discrepancies• Settle with counterparties• Monitor operations by dispatchers and traders• Close the company books

Energy Accounting

Energy companies must account for all the megawatt hours in their system, perform counterparty checkouts and provide meter management activities. On the surface, these tasks appear rather simple but when executed, they can become highly complicated. Historically, many companies have built internal systems to handle energy accounting, but over time, these systems can become very difficult to maintain. Oftentimes, these home grown systems lack critical capabilities such as sophisticated security features and the ability to effectively facilitate calculated values or error checking.


Configure to FitAll PCI processing is deal sensitive and configurable to fit your needs. No matter if you view any transaction scenario as financial, as physical or as a hybrid of the two, PCI accommodates each deal interpretation by providing support for all individual components such as: • Bidding of any market instrument to any

North American ISO• Deal Capture with interfaces to ICE and NYMEX• OASIS communication and eTagging• Pipeline communication• Settlement with ISOs and counterparties Powerful. Open. Consistent.• All processing is deal sensitive and configurable with all

deal data linked to powerful position reporting tools

• Deals and tags are openly available using Java API, Web Services and CSV/XML imports/exports

• Settled volumes will factor in to the entire end-to-end process for both day ahead and real-time inside and outside of ISO markets

Deal Management

PCI’s Deal Management System provides straight-through processing of the entire trading, bidding, scheduling and settlement process. From multi-commodity deal capture and credit, to scheduling and settling of all transactions, PCI streamlines all methods and ensures clear communication with all counterparties and other external entities.

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PCI's Gas Management Solution provides you the ability to view position information related to the pipeline, locations and counterparties then easily export it to Microsoft Excel or other external systems. Benefits and Key Features• Physical modeling of gas systems — including all pipelines,

hubs, points and paths

• Gas schedule optimization based on paths, price data and pipeline constraints

• Custom interface to strike options and purchase supplies

• Integration with real-time and day-ahead power system processes

• Gas transportation management, including control over pipelines and storage

• Powerful scheduling tools to update gas prices and forecast gas burn

• Pipeline capacity reservation to maximize cost savings

• Summary and detail reports provide a clear overview of contracts and gas supply

Gas Management

PCI Gas Management combines physical supply as well as transportation contracts, giving users complete control over path selection as well as standard options and time-dependent strike options. PCI Gas Management communicates with gas pipelines using a standard protocol that is beneficial to both gas companies operating city gates as well as generation companies operating gas-fired power plants.


Asset Operations

PCI's Asset Operations Solution leads the industry with an integrated collection of applications revolving around a core Outage Management System. The Asset Management suite is designed to streamline work processes and improve communications between plant and operations personnel, allowing them complete control in managing all asset-related workflows and reporting requirements.

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PCI Outage Management supplies a coordinated stream of outage event and status data from the plant to your front office as well as to the ISO.

Plant Interface enables plant personnel to review and update operational data that drives DA/RT market offers.

GADS (Generating Availability Data System) enables users to enter and manage NERC GADS compliant outages, derates and reserve shutdown events.

Energy Scheduling Module automates the scheduling process and allows users to import energy schedule data then review and modify that data in other PCI or third-party applications.

Gas Pipeline Scheduling Module communicates with gas pipelines using a standard protocol beneficial to gas companies operating city gates and generators operating gas-fired power plants.

The PCI Asset Operations suite incorporates:• A fully web-based, easy-to-use, intuitive Graphical User

Interface (GUI)• Conformity to ISO data-entry requirements• Management of the entire outage lifecycle process from

the plant to Outage Coordinator and Dispatcher• Easy recording of all operating events • Seamless connection to other PCI or third-party systems • A convenient interface with NERC eGADS

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Depending on the objective, PCI Post Analysis computes results that can assign costs and benefits by group, by objective and by relevant stakeholder. Typical Post Analysis objectives include:• Transaction costing (after-the-fact)• Lost opportunity costs from outages or derates• Operational efficiency costs (optimal vs. actual)• Calculation of client-specific indexes Benefits of using PCI Post Analysis:• Automating and streamlining post analytics of your firm’s

operational performance as well as the segregation and allocation of costs and revenues among stakeholders

• Demonstration of operational prudence according to market and regulatory rules

• Providing a historical account to validate future decisions

• Standard and custom reports to display key post analysis results

• Powerful and intuitive dashboards to optimize user experience

• Ability to interface with other in-house and PCI systems

Post Analysis

PCI's Post Analysis Solution provides business tools developed for analyzing past market activities with the goal of improving future performance. With a robust calculation engine, post analysis evaluations can reveal a variety of information that is used by multiple departments to optimize operations and business processes. PCI Post Analysis allows users to access transactions data, subject it to rigorous analysis and compute actual P&L for operating a portfolio of assets inside (or outside) any ISO market.

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Out-of-the-Box Implementation The PCI Data Warehouse comes predefined with schemas and wizards to help you hit the ground running.

Streamlining Data Mining, Analysis and Reporting Because different information sets from different systems are stored together, they are easier to access.

Flexible Deployment The PCI Data Warehouse can spin-off numerous “data marts” to support reporting or downstream interfaces.

Fast Creation of New Reports and Business Intelligence “Analyzers” Business users and IT personnel can create and test new reports in hours or days instead of weeks or months.

Common Data Model for All Types of Data PCI has made a significant investment in encoding all data objects into a consistent, consolidated star (snowflake) schema that allows for easy interfacing and reporting.

Scalability The PCI Data Warehouse Solution can adjust to your growing business needs over time.

Open Integration Use the PCI Data Warehouse together with a data aggregator to optimize data collection and reporting.

Data Warehouse

The PCI Data Warehouse is designed exclusively for energy companies to manage, analyze and report on generation, transmission and demand-side data from PCI and non-PCI data sources. Primarily a reporting and interfacing database, the PCI Data Warehouse speeds up report generation and integration, giving you more time to focus on interpreting (and acting on) critical market and operational signals. PCI's Data Warehouse is a powerful strategic platform that gives you a competitive advantage by marrying its vast capabilities with PCI’s (or third-party) business intelligence systems.

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Traditional BI products perform the requisite generation of reports, graphs and charts from large databases. However, PCI’s BI Solutions go well beyond that by deploying analytical tools aimed specifically at business and opportunity "discovery” rather than mere reporting. PCI BI Analyzers allow you to:• Visualize market and operational trends

• Compare important data attributes (such as energy prices, volumes, fuel burns and profits) across positions and through any time horizon

• Expedite analyses with incredible processing power to quickly slice into and interpret vast amounts of data

• See information how you want — from annual portfolio summaries down to monthly, daily, hourly and even sub-hourly views of specific positions

• Monitor an array of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

The Foundation: PCI’s Data WarehousePCI's BI Analyzers are fed by our Data Warehouse which can also supply data to your existing downstream systems and BI tools. Users can easily create custom report templates themselves or in coordination with other software suppliers.

PCI Business Intelligence

PCI Business Intelligence (BI) transforms raw data into meaningful and useful information. PCI has created a suite of BI "Analyzers” (e.g., P&L Analyzer, Settlement Analyzer) that substantially speed the gathering, dissection and evaluation of very large data sets to generate highly valuable reports and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). These tools allow your enterprise to measure progress as well as identify opportunities, cost-savings potential and various market and operational danger signals.


Access. Availability. Reliability.Users access PCI-hosted software via their web browser over a secure, encrypted connection portal. PCI-hosted servers reside in a separate network (VLAN) that provides protected internal and external communications. The PCI business solutions you license, along with your proprietary data, reside within a state-of-the-art data center supported around the clock, 365 days a year. A fully redundant disaster recovery service ensures availability and complies with NERC CIP requirements. PCI Hosted Solutions can run part or all of your business. Benefits include:• Your enterprise owns and accesses all data• Seamless integration with existing software• A fully scalable, hosted platform along with a single API • 24/7/365 availability via a web-based, subscription service • Full support for custom and standard implementations • Quick deployment and fast adoption by users • Migration to on-premise installation (if desired) • Support for business process automation • Integrated Data Warehousing

PCI Hosted Solutions

Any PCI Software Solution can be installed locally at your site, or hosted by our firm. PCI's Hosted Business Solutions platform has been developed by drawing on extensive IT experience with numerous energy companies across the U.S. We provide dedicated, trusted and experienced professionals to off-load your IT staff and support your business 24/7/365. The option of having PCI host your choice of industry-leading business solutions can be a great fit for your enterprise strategy in comparison to traditional on-site installation and in-house maintenance and support.

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PCI Software Deployment Solutions

PCI has a proven track record of successful execution on hundreds of implementation projects. Our Professional Services Organization (PSO) leverages PCI’s industry-leading software solutions in a broad spectrum of software deployments projects that include, but are not limited to:

• Helping customers join a new ISO/RTO

• Change-out of an existing Market Operating System

• Management of small to large as well as custom software system implementations

PCI employs a standardized, Waterfall-based implementation plan to deliver our solutions to end users. The plan (in progressive order) includes:

PCI project management experts understand energy markets at the most fundamental level, and they understand how software solutions should be configured and integrated to optimize operations. Our project managers have an average of eight years’ experience successfully working solely with PCI clients. They are innovative thinkers who can deploy and integrate PCI's software solutions with third-party systems for managing diverse functions such as accounting, SCADA, Internet connectivity, ETRM, historians and other enterprise business systems. Regardless of the size or scope of your project, PCI will ensure you achieve your mission critical software objectives.

• Scoping• Design• Installation/deployment• Integration• Business process

implementation

• Training• User acceptance testing• Parallel operations• Go-live• Transition to Client Services


PCI ISO/RTO Market Education

Since 2007, PCI has conducted a variety of ISO/RTO market workshops and is recognized today as one of the most authoritative, credible and qualified educators on a diverse array of topics associated with market operations and participation. Our workshops are typically two-day events presented by senior PCI staff members who are well-known subject matter experts in the energy industry.

PCI workshops enable participants to integrate their expanded knowledge into everyday job functions so they can immediately use it to positively impact their company’s operations and profitability. Our course content and instruction consistently receive rave reviews from attendees who strongly insist they get the absolute best training available. PCI has conducted the following types of seminars for multiple ISO/RTO markets:• Preparing for market go-live

• Developing bidding strategies and maximizing the value of generation company assets

• Managing bid-to-bill workflows

• Understanding and validating settlement charges

• Using settlement results to provide feedback to traders on effective bidding strategies

• Strategies for bidding ancillary services in LMP markets

• Advanced bidding and settlement

• Portfolio optimization and risk management

PCI also develops custom workshops and agendas for individual companies that want to train and better equip key members of their staff.

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Client Services PCI understands no two clients are the same, so our maintenance and support packages are tailored to meet the mission critical needs of each unique client. PCI employs more than 30 technical analysts specializing in supporting our software solutions, and each has obtained a bachelor’s or master’s degree in MIS, computer science, engineering or math. Analysts must successfully complete a rigorous PCI software installation certification process before they begin interfacing with clients. PCI’s Client Services Group manages:• Initial customer contact, issue triaging, issue

management/communication and issue resolution

• Hosted systems operations

• Project deployment work

• Software installations for all client projects

• General and customized hands-on training conducted at client sites or at PCI’s state-of-the-art facilities in Norman, Oklahoma

• Releases and updates (all with associated Root Cause Analysis)

• PCI’s client-only support website

• Product documentation

PCI Client Services is focused on constantly improving the overall service and product experience for all of our clients. In addition to our standard Monday through Friday support, PCI offers optional 24/7 support where on-call Technical Analysts will call you back within 15 minutes. Further, there is an on-call Escalation Team ready to resolve client-critical issues.


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