Priority-based Generation Control for Balancing Authorities (PGC-BA)

PGC-BA software augments and optimizes the control functions of EMS's built-in AGC for Balancing Authorities (BA). Seamlessly integrating with any EMS or GMS, PGC-BA is a revolutionary leap in generation control.

PGC-BA has been field-tested in real-time operation against virtually every major AGC on the market in BAs across the US. It has shown obvious improvement and tremendous savings in every single field trial.

Why does every Balancing Authority need PGC-BA?

Because PGC-BA is the most advanced and most intelligent tool for optimizing real-time generation control for reliability and economic efficiency. It provides enormous fuel cost savings and reduces wear & tear on power plants from unnecessary maneuvering.

Features of PGC-BA:

• Unique Priority-based Control algorithm. At the heart of PGC is our breakthrough Priority-based Control technology, engineered to align with your utility's unique objectives. Trusted across the US in utilities with a capacity range of 250 MW to 40,000 MW, this technology now accounts for about 10% of the nation's total generation capacity.
• PGC utilizes AI to learn from its experience on the system to optimize and maintain reliability.
• PGC's priority-based nature enables PCE to quickly customize PGC-BA to target the specific priorities of each BA and add plug-in modules, such as Enstorm or the PGC Renewable Optimization Module.
• Focus on economic efficiency. Using an advanced, forward-looking economic dispatch, PGC-BA is demonstrably the best software on the market for:
  • Minimizing fuel costs and emissions by maintaining units near their optimal economic basepoints.
  • Avoiding costly unnecessary unit setpoint oscillations and generation maneuvering.
• Excellent reliability. PGC-BA's algorithm maximizes the optimization opportunities allowed by NERC standards, with features like:
  • A learning algorithm that intelligently adjusts control over time to achieve a desired range of monthly CPS1 scores with minimum fuel cost and wear on the power plants.
  • Active response to contingencies to minimize risk of DCS violations while avoiding excessive maneuvering.
  • Maintaining desired contingency reserve at minimum cost.
  • Management of frequency-responsive reserves and augmenting response for FRS events with AGC resources.
  • Limiting flow between subzones of a BA.
• Works with existing AGC. PGC-BA software augments and optimizes the control functions of EMS's built-in AGC for Balancing Authorities (BA). PCE has installed PGC in every major vendor's EMS, using a variety of approaches customized to each client's objectives, CIP rules, and network considerations.

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