Tag: United States

  • Retail Management for Load Aggregator

    Retail Management for Load Aggregator

    Company

    A small company providing energy to residential and business customers across 4 ISOs in the US.

    Challenge

    Streamline straight-through solutions for product design, pricing, supply costing, margin analysis, risk management, headroom analysis, and competitive positioning.

    SATURN

    • Enabled structuring, costing, and pricing highly customized products and offerings across multiple regions and customer types.
    • Facilitated power supply optimization and enabled on-going updates based on customers acquisition and attrition.
    • Empowered the risk manager with advanced risk management capabilities and enabled effective hedging strategies.

    Impact

    • Saved staff time and empowered team with advanced and integrated on-demand solutions – in minutes.
    • Enabled advanced headroom analysis, competitive positioning, effective product design, and dynamic pricing.
    • Eliminated operational bottlenecks and replaced inefficient EXCEL data management with online streamlined capabilities.

    SATURN Applications

  • Trading Management for Large Retailer

    Trading Management for Large Retailer

    Company

    Trading subsidiary that procures power supply for a multinational retail company with supermarkets across the US and UK.

    Challenge

    Streamline straight-through solutions for pre-trade valuation, trade capture, mark-to-market, value-at-risk, position management, settlement, and scheduling.

    SATURN

    • Enabled trading subsidiary of a multinational retailer to capture, evaluate, and schedule power trades in the US and UK.
    • Facilitated advanced trade valuation, effective risk management, and on-demand position management and reporting.
    • Streamlined trading, data management, reporting, scheduling, and reporting and integrated end-to-end solutions.

    Impact

    • Saved staff time and empowered team with on-demand solutions – in minutes.
    • Integrated US and UK operations and enabled trading and risk management with a global view.
    • Automated reporting, data visualization, workflows, and documentation with comprehensive integration.

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  • Optimize Power Sale Agreement

    Optimize Power Sale Agreement

    Company

    Large energy company that operates oil refineries in Northern and Southern California.

    Challenge

    Structure power sale agreement to maximize margins by selling surplus power while maintaining primary focus of meeting the power and steam needs of company refinery.

    SATURN

    • Developed re-usable framework to analyze and compare alternative power sale agreements with local utility and trading firms.
    • Streamlined market price simulation, optimized refinery operation, power sale analysis, and margin and risk management
    • Enabled cross-departments coordination, online results review, on-demand reporting, improved margins, and reduced risks.

    Impact

    • Structured improved power sale agreement that adds over 10 million dollars per year to the bottom line of one refinery.
    • Saved staff time, improved organization skills, and enabled cross-departments collaboration.
    • Empowered advanced optimization of refinery operation that enabled improved analysis of plant modernization.

    SATURN Applications

  • Market Analysis for Large Integrated Company

    Market Analysis for Large Integrated Company

    Company

    Large energy company with oil refineries in several states in the US.

    Challenge

    Provide custom automated early morning report with updated market prices and trading indicators providing key metrics for trends, momentum, and volatility.

    SATURN

    • Deployed streamlined and automated daily market analysis capability offering updated market prices and technical indicators.
    • Customized reporting and data visualization to meet specific needs for multiple power and gas markets across 5 ISOs.
    • Established widely used Daily Morning Report that quickly became a key enabler of efficient business management.

    Impact

    • Eliminated inefficient EXCEL data management processing and replaced manual data entry with automated processing.
    • Enabled data-driven insights that facilitated effective trading, risk management, hedging, and position management.
    • Saved staff time across several departments, enriched organization skills, and streamlined new staff onboarding.

    SATURN Applications

  • Forecasting and Position Management

    Forecasting and Position Management

    Company

    Integrated company operating a fleet of diverse generation assets in eastern Texas.

    Challenge

    Develop short and long-term operating plans to meet customer demand subject to state and federal regulations including FERC, NERC, and Texas PUC.

    SATURN

    • Implemented market calibration that derives simulation parameters and enables reliable market price forecasts.
    • Integrated market price simulation, generation optimization, load analysis, trading, and position management.
    • Empowered advanced stochastic simulation of generation production, costs, and margins.

    Impact

    • Empowered same-day analysis of management requests and enabled decision-making with confidence.
    • Automated customized daily reports for analysts, managers, and executives.
    • Streamlined data setup, reports visualization, and cross-departments collaboration.

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  • Market Analytics for Advisory Firm

    Market Analytics for Advisory Firm

    Company

    Advisory company that offers insights and strategic guidance to investors and hedging firms.

    Challenge

    Provide custom automated early morning report with updated market prices and technical indicators providing key metrics for trends, momentum, and volatility.

    SATURN

    • Developed an automated market analysis capability that offers daily updates of market technical indicators.
    • Customized process and reporting to meet advisory firm specific needs for multiple power and fuel markets across 4 ISOs.
    • Empowered highly efficient analysis of market movements and their impacts on financial metrics of advisory firm clients.

    Impact

    • Eliminated time-consuming data manipulation and spreadsheet processing.
    • Provided data-driven insights and enabled more informed analysis and updates.
    • Empowered reliable financial forecasts using detailed market indicators.

    SATURN Applications