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Overview

A Leading Transaction Delivery Management System for Power

ACES is the state of the art energy transaction management system used for streamlining and automating the process of power trading and transmission scheduling. This system provides power generators, buyers, distributors, and other players in the electricity grid with timely and accurate information on the purchase, sale, and scheduling of power.

Offering real-time, high volume, around the clock capabilities, ACES makes it easier than ever to perform long term, day-ahead, hour-ahead, and real-time scheduling for load, generation, transmission, energy purchases and sales, and ancillary services.

Functionality

A comprehensive set of features and capabilities that offer:

 *Comprehensive scheduling including generation, transmission and ancillary services
 *NERC tagging, with Tag Agent, Tag Approval, and Tag Authority services
 *Market interfaces including California ISO, NERC ETAG, PJM, NYISO, OASIS Phase 1A,  Midwest ISO and ERCOT
 *Contract setup with a contract-driven scheduling model 
 *Pre-scheduling capability by delivery point and for multiple entities
 *Planning including interfaces to production cost models, joint asset ownersip models, and integrated risk management
 *Real-time scheduling by year down to 1 minute increments
 *Settlements including balancing of predicted and actual statements

 *Billing via export to external billing system or via invoice and billing statement generation

Highlights

ACES is the ideal solution for any energy operator who must:

 *Make informed decisions about the scheduling, purchase and sale of bulk power commodities
 *Enforce business rules, generate warnings and manage mass volumes of information
 *Provide important cost data at the front end of each billing cycle
 *Enable the energy manager to forecast billing reports and budget accurately
 *Access contracts, schedules, inter-utility invoicing and reports

Benefits

ACES is unique in its ability to rapidly unite all the crucial elements affecting electric energy trading decisions. It allows you to integrate information with existing energy management systems or corporate information systems without re-entering data.

Because ACES is a model-driven application, its behavior is closely aligned with your business practices. Once data has been entered to reflect these practices, ACES ensures its behavior matches your business specific goals and requirements.

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