ACES
ACES provides the integrated information energy marketers, generation owners and load providers need to help automate and streamline power transactions, transmission scheduling and risk management. It offers tools for contract compliance, settlement calculations, billing, invoicing, real-time generation dispatch and real-time curtailment management. It also includes optional add-ons that expand ACES’ abilities, such as for managing eTag transactions, integrating scheduling in hourly markets and insulating internal networks from external networks.
Features
- Offers comprehensive scheduling functions including generation, transmission, ancillary services, ISO bids and load
- Allows real-time scheduling set in increments from a minute to a year
- Simplifies long–term, day–ahead, hour–ahead, and real–time scheduling
- Provides an interface to billing systems for exporting or generating invoices
- Includes planning functionality with interfaces to production cost models, joint asset ownership models and integrated risk management
Benefits
- Automates tagging capabilities when creating and modifying schedules to save time
- Streamlines exporting of data with speed and accuracy
- Helps users make informed decisions about the scheduling, purchase and sale of bulk power commodities
- Improves forecasting abilities for enhanced reporting and budgeting
- Provides access to contracts, schedules, inter-utility invoicing and reports from existing information systems throughout the enterprise