Salt River Project (SRP) to Deploy Multiple PCI Solutions for Its Planned Transition into the California ISO Energy Imbalance Market (EIM)

NORMAN, Okla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Salt River Project (SRP) has selected Power Costs, Inc. (PCI) to deploy
multiple enterprise solutions as part of its road-map to join the Energy
Imbalance Market (EIM) operated by the California Independent System
Operator (CAISO). SRP will begin CAISO EIM operations in 2020.

With this selection, SRP plans to consolidate its legacy IT landscape
and streamline several of its operational functions, using a single
web-based platform. PCI will support all “Balancing Authority” and
“Marketing & Trading” operations in the CAISO EIM. Key solutions to be
deployed over multiple years include:

• CAISO EIM Bidding and Settlements (PCI GenManager®)
• Power and Gas Transaction Management (PCI ETRM)
• Power Deal Pricing (PCI Real-time Pricing)
• Resource Optimization, Base Schedule Creation, and Balancing (PCI
  GenTrader®)
• Outage Management System (PCI Asset Operations)
• Meter Data Management (PCI Energy Accounting)
• Transmission Area Operations (PCI Transmission Operations)
• Performance Analytics & Business Intelligence (PCI Post Analysis and
  P&L Analyzer)
• Enterprise Data Warehouse & Reporting (PCI Data Warehouse)

SRP’s EIM Implementation Director, Sara McCoy, noted, “After an
extensive evaluation process, SRP selected PCI to be our long-term
business partner based upon their expertise, solution coverage and
experience with multiple successful go-lives in the EIM market.”

“PCI is proud to have SRP as one of its premier enterprise customers and
values its trust with us,” said Jason Hebert, PCI Vice President. “With
our experienced and dedicated team of EIM experts, PCI is confident in
supporting the SRP team for a timely and seamless transition into EIM.”

The PCI CAISO EIM platform is a complete
solution set that provides benefits to EIM Entities, Transmission
Service Providers, Entity Scheduling Coordinators, and Participating
Resource Scheduling Coordinators.

About Salt River Project

SRP is the oldest multipurpose federal reclamation project in the United
States. We have been serving central Arizona since 1903, nearly 10 years
before Arizona became the 48th state. Today SRP is one of the nation’s
largest public power utilities. We provide electricity to approximately
1 million retail customers in a 2,900-square-mile service area that
spans three Arizona counties, including most of the metropolitan Phoenix
area (known as the Valley). We are an integrated utility, providing
generation, transmission and distribution services, as well as metering
and billing services. SRP’s water business is one of the largest
raw-water suppliers in Arizona. We deliver about 800,000 acre-feet of
water annually to a 375-square-mile service area and manage a
13,000-square-mile watershed that includes an extensive system of
reservoirs, wells, canals and irrigation laterals. To learn more about
SRP, please visit www.srpnet.com.

About Power Costs, Inc. (PCI)

PCI is the leading provider of generation supply management software,
superior customer support and value-added services for energy focused
companies. Founded in 1992, PCI continues to refine and develop new
software solutions that meet the ever-evolving needs of its clients
which include investor-owned, municipal and cooperative utilities,
independent power producers as well as energy marketing and trading
organizations. More than half of all the power generated in the United
States is optimized using PCI software solutions and over 60% of the
Fortune 500 Energy and Utility firms in the U.S. are PCI clients. PCI is
a privately held company based in Norman, Oklahoma with offices in
Houston, TX; Raleigh, NC and Mexico City, Mexico. To learn more about
PCI, please visit www.powercosts.com.

Contacts

Power Costs, Inc. (PCI)
Jason Hebert, 713-529-0022
[email protected]