TRADERS

Power Catalyst includes trading companies in its customer base.

Power Catalyst brings years of experience designing and integrating systems for the energy industry. With us on their team, trading companies will get closer to their mission of a transparent trading operation continuously feeding on information and managing risk using state-of-the-art tools and techniques.

Power Catalyst projects with trading desks have always been in the context of generation or load serving companies. See Generators and Load Entities for project listings.

Taking on and managing risk is at the heart of a trading operation's business. The analysts, traders and operators get the edge by crunching through swaths of constantly changing information rapidly and precisely. To enable them, the trading enterprise must have an information infrastructure that acts as a central nervous system, collecting live information from "sensors" in the market place that include price and weather feeds, generation and intertie status, market volume and depth data, and real-time usage data.

In addition to these front-end data flows, gushers of back-end data follow the trading day in the form of settlements, regulatory and management information. The trading operation's systems need to tie it all together, validating, reconciling, allocating, and correlating dollars, megawatts, and mmBTUs.