PowerCore Advances in SPP Markets+

Boulder, Colorado – Yes Energy, a leading provider of front, middle and back-office software, today announced that a major market player has selected its bid-to-bill platform to manage its participation in Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Markets+.

While more than 50 customers in western electricity markets use PowerCore, this is the second customer who has chosen Yes Energy’s PowerCore software and team to help navigate the new SPP Markets+, expected to go live in fall 2027.  

For organizations that have selected to participate in the new market, the all new bid-to-bill software is an ideal solution. Yes Energy has extensive experience with the SPP Markets, supporting nearly 200 customers since it began. PowerCore unites real-time data with customer proprietary data, market data, power grid modeling, and demand forecast data, driving improvements to enterprise performance and bottom-line results in a way no other full-spectrum energy software does.

While entering a new market can be a challenge, organizations can make the process easier with PowerCore, designed specifically for each market. Some of the benefits include: 

• Data Analytics and Visualization: As energy markets become more sophisticated, data analytics become increasingly more important. PowerCore combines customer proprietary market data with Yes Energy’s market data to visualize the information and to make it transactable. 
• Market Transaction: PowerCore supports all market transactions, including complex bidding such as that of hybrid assets and scheduling in and out of the market. Front office workflows for emissions, resource adequacy, renewable energy certificates, power and fuels are all supported.
• Settlements: With new markets, verifying market settlement invoices is important, and Yes Energy is the leader in shadow settlements calculation, helping one client to successfully dispute $56 million in one year. Whether it’s market settlements, transmission suballocations, market allocations or complex third-party transactions, Yes Energy has a proven solution.

More than 60 market participants in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), SPP, and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) use PowerCore. Their choice confirms Yes Energy is leading the way in building front, middle, and back-office decision support tools to help utilities make better decisions.

“PowerCore continually adapts to the changing energy marketplace, ensuring back-office efficiency, compliance, and strategic alignment with utilities’ financial goals,” said Michael McNair, Yes Energy CEO. 

“We’re honored to be selected to help build out this powerful software and system, helping Markets+ entrants build their platform for maximum success as they enter this new, complex market. We have more than 15 years’ experience in power markets, placing us in a unique position to guide market participants."

While SPP has long been a key player in managing energy markets, Markets+ represents a new level of market evolution, providing unique advantages that set it apart from existing frameworks like SPP’s Integrated Marketplace, WEIS, and RTO Expansion.

Those wanting to see the PowerCore bid-to-bill software in action, can request a demo. 

About Yes Energy

Yes Energy is a leader in power market data and provides innovative solutions to help traders, power companies, utilities and asset developers make sense of the complex, rapidly changing power market. Yes Energy provides robust, accurate and timely data and comprehensive tools to help customers navigate the markets and make the right decisions every day. It’s time to Win the Day Ahead™, and only Yes Energy provides customers with the unique combination of better data, better delivery and better direction needed to do that. Learn more at yesenergy.com.

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