Case Studies

Comprehensive Compliance Review

Issue Our client is a renewable generation developer, owner, and operator in North American energy markets whose rapid growth into new markets has resulted in a multi-threaded compliance reporting landscape. After the winter storm in 2021and several related regulatory inquiries, our client asked us to perform a review of their three distinct business line compliance […]
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Endur Process Assessment

Issue MidDel Consulting was engaged to review the comprehensive processes related to nominations, pathing, tracking burn volumes and storage volumes and to provide recommendations for process improvements and software enhancements.   This effort was requested by front and mid office users, with specific focus on the time required to aggregate position information, update and remove schedules, […]
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Allegro Horizon ETRM System Implementation

Issue Our client, an unregulated utility company owning gas and coal powered generating units and contracts serving municipal and cooperative customers, had recently acquired its assets from another market participant. The client decided to implement an ETRM system to support management of its merchant activities of its new portfolio of assets including deal capture, inventory […]
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Retail Operational Reporting

Issue Our client, a retail electric provider, engaged MidDel Consulting to determine best course of action to improve reporting efficiency and operational business intelligence. MidDel was tasked to identify and build improved data integrations and reporting processes for use by key business areas. After review of current reporting and multiple process reviews, MidDel proposed a […]
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Assessment of Commercial Operations Systems and Processes

Issue The client operates an impressive portfolio of assets, consisting of hydro, wind, solar, and one thermal resource, across both the RTO and bilateral North American markets. Management of power markets, requires a wide-ranging combination of different people, processes, technology, and data to support the business objectives and the market requirements. At the beginning of […]
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Retail Centric Strategy Evaluation

Issue Our client, a large North America power company that has a presence in over twenty states, desired to pursue a more retail-centric strategy, and consolidate its Wholesale and Retail System Landscape into one platform to gain efficiencies and better align its system architecture to meet the business needs of its future portfolio. The current […]
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OSIsoft PI Solutions - PI Audio Alarm

Issue Our client needed to receive audio alerts based on readings from the OSIsoft PI real-time data. OSIsoft has a product that delivers notifications but not in audio format. The client wanted an alert as soon as a limit was exceeded in real-time delivered through audio so it would not be missed. Solution Our consultant […]
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Allegro ETRM System Physical Gas Implementation

Issue Following the re-implementation of the Allegro ETRM system for trading refined petroleum products, our client, the physical energy trading subsidiary of a large, multi-national financial trading and investment firm, was then tasked with a second phase of the project to capture physical natural gas trading activity including trade entry, scheduling, actualizing, and invoicing. Solution […]
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Endur Power and Gas Upgrade

Issue MidDel Consulting was approached by a Northwestern Power and Gas utility to assist in upgrading the OpenLink Endur Energy Trading and Risk Management (“ETRM”) system, from version fourteen (“v14”) to version seventeen (“v17”), amidst significant market volatility and with an aggressive delivery window required to beat the end-of-year blackout period for any system changes. […]
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Endur Scheduling and Pathing Support

Issue Our client, a West Coast energy utility company who serves a significant number of natural gas fired power generators and local distribution companies, had difficulty closing their books the prior year due to corrupt storage nominations and schedules. The client reached out to us to help them load and balance their ETRM system, Endur, […]
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