The vendor is required to provide for utility grade and wholesale energy market participant standard real-time energy data and analytics services to be purchased by the city of municipal electric, (DME).
• Total cost of real-time market data and analytics service (3-year term, total cost and by year)
• Required implementation time
• Short on-site or web-ex demonstration of services, if requested
• Meet minimum technical specification outlined below
• Provide both data and graphical displays with extraction of data via web interface, e.g., csv and/or API.
- ERCOT market data and analytics services
1. Real-time & day-ahead ERCOT market data & congestion monitoring
• Real-time geographical tracking of resource data for different types of power plants (coal, gas, batteries, renewables, etc.), with indicators for data quality and percentage of nameplate generation in real-time
• Real-time geographical tracking of power flows across bulk transmission lines (345kv, 138kv, 69kv), including congestion and constraint monitoring
• Real-time notifications for resource outages, sudden changes or forced derates in operating output of resources, major transmission outages, major frequency deviations and other critical impacts across the ERCOT grid
• Access to live settlement point prices and locational marginal pricing data across ERCOT
• Ability to view impacts of congestion at user defined nodes and paths, with detailed breakdowns of constraint drivers (generation/load shift factor impacts, line outage shift factor impacts, etc.)
• Real-time monitoring of resource mix, grid balancing (e.g., online reserves, PRC, 5-minute response gen, etc.), storage deployment, ancillary services deployments, dc tie flows, frequency, and load across ERCOT
• Access to historical data, at a minimum, for the data listed above, but preferably the ability to access all historical data provided by the service
2. Predictive analytics and forecasting of real-time & day-ahead ERCOT market data
• Tools to forecast rt and da nodal pricing in ERCOT
• Tools to anticipate future congestion/constraints on the ERCOT transmission system, with detailed breakdowns of constraint drivers
• Forecasted ancillary services awards & prices
• Current and forecasted outages, with the ability to filter outages by ERCOT load zone
• Forecasting of ERCOT grid level supply and demand, including generation output forecasting at individual generators and loads (where applicable)
• Access to historical data, at a minimum, for the data listed above, but preferably the ability to access all historical forecasted data and analysis provided by the service
3. Visualization of real-time and day ahead ERCOT market data & analytics
• Real-time power flows across the grid, with overlays for transmission constraints, direction of congestion, transmission and generation outages, generation levels, and nodal pricing
• User-configurable dashboards displaying key market metrics such as systemwide/hub/load zone pricing, transmission constraints, grid load, combined renewables, ancillary services deployments, resource mix, etc.
• Ability to easily create user-defined graphical displays of all historical RT & DA ERCOT market and forecasted market data provided by the service
4. Reporting of real-time and day ahead and forecasted ERCOT market data & analytics
• Potential weather impacts
• System and regional load forecasts
• Price impacts due to major generation outages and renewable generation forecasts
• Major transmission bottlenecks, transmission outages and their potential impacts to system, regional and, where applicable, nodal pricing
• Price impacts due to abnormal or rapid deviations to forecasted grid conditions, particularly in hours of historical volatility (e.g., duck curve hours)
• For any summary reports provided, city requests access to the analysts creating the reports via email, phone, or teleconference
• City requests the vendor provide a robust and documented API allowing for customized and automated data reporting from the market data and analytics services.
- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: June 02, 2025