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Forming an Independent Balancing Authority


Energy – Avangrid Renewables

Forming an Independent Balancing Authority

Forming an Independent Balancing Authority


Percipio was brought on board to manage all project aspects of business, technology and organizational change required for our client to successfully certify and operate as a BA in compliance with NERC Reliability Standards. We provided project leadership from inception to end, from first establishing the project governance and charter for the BA Program to ultimately delivering a successful go-live and handoff to business operations. We worked with our client to build and enable a highly effective team of diverse skills, roles and perspectives focused on the end game. The BA solution spanned trading, energy accounting, EMS and SCADA systems. Percipio drove the workstreams forward, identified gaps and navigated our client through the change acting as a glue across the organization.

Percipio helped this clean energy company set up the systems and resources needed to establish as an independent BAA, which would deliver an annual $4M cost savings and continue strengthening its reputation in the market. Our team implemented a complex business transformation across people, process and technology, ushering in an overall change in mindset related to fundamental business drivers.  

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A clean energy company embarked on forming its own independent Balancing Authority Area (BAA), to be comprised of its Pacific Northwest assets thereby transitioning them from under Bonneville Power Administration’s (BPA) BAA. Moving forward as an independent BAA would not only provide a large cost savings for our client, it would also allow for improved operational flexibility, access to a greater number of market structures that can only be utilized as a BA and
Challenges
  • Working with 16 separate business and technology workstreams that impacted almost every department across the organization
  • Implementing multiple systems requiring extensive internal and external integration
  • Additional 130 NERC requirements with significant potential fines for non-compliance
  • Maintaining project performance over a long duration project (two+ years) required establishing and reestablishing a sense of urgency to build and maintain momentum and meet key project milestones
Services
  • Operations Improvement
  • Technology Integration
  • Risk & Controls
Solutions

Percipio was brought on board to manage all project aspects of business, technology and organizational change required for our client to successfully certify and operate as a BA in compliance with NERC Reliability Standards. We provided project leadership from inception to end, from first establishing the project governance and charter for the BA Program to ultimately delivering a successful go-live and handoff to business operations. We worked with our client to build and enable a highly effective team of diverse skills, roles and perspectives focused on the end game. The BA solution spanned trading, energy accounting, EMS and SCADA systems. Percipio drove the workstreams forward, identified gaps and navigated our client through the change acting as a glue across the organization.

Percipio helped this clean energy company set up the systems and resources needed to establish as an independent BAA, which would deliver an annual $4M cost savings and continue strengthening its reputation in the market. Our team implemented a complex business transformation across people, process and technology, ushering in an overall change in mindset related to fundamental business drivers.  

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