Energy

CombineNet's Energy division is applying the company's core optimization technology beyond the realm of advanced sourcing in a series of operational, financial and planning products for the energy and utilities industries.

Initially focusing on the natural gas industry, CombineNet Energy's GS2 product, the Gas System Guidance System, provides executives with a powerful new ability to address the extremely complex issue of maximizing enterprise-wide gross margins while assuring operational viability.

GS2 utilizes the power of CombineNet's combinatorial optimization engine to simultaneously analyze all elements of a vertically-integrated natural gas operation (supply, storage and transmission) as well as operational and contractual constraints, in the context of financial analysis and planning. GS2 delivers this information clearly to guide key decision makers within a user interface that allows you to click, drag, and open exceptional detail in a collaborative, user-friendly format.

GS2 was developed to guide energy executives on financial and strategic decisions that have a direct impact on:

  • Maximization of enterprise-wide gross profits
  • Projections of variances from financial plans
  • Financial and operational planning
  • Utilization of physical and contractual assets
  • Objective decision justification to satisfy regulatory bodies
  • Enterprise-wide visualization and collaboration

Executive Command Center

To further streamline the decision making process, the optimized results of GS2 are presented in a collaborative executive command center format, built on the same underlying technology being used by the US Army, the most advanced Command and Control software in use today. The executive command center concept utilized in GS2 enables senior executives as well as other decision makers to collaboratively visualize and analyze critical operational and financial results, for an up-to-date executive dashboard view of the entire enterprise.

These merged technologies enable GS2 to provide substantial quantitative (e.g., financial improvement) and qualitative (e.g., executive management oversight) benefits when applied to vertically integrated natural gas operations. Visit www.combinenetenergy.com to learn more.

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Key Operational Benefits

Storage Operations:

  • Optimizes the economic utilization of pool assets
  • Identifies excess storage capacity and surplus gas available to market
  • Determines the appropriate amount and type of storage services
  • Calculates optimal storage injection and withdrawal volumes

Transmission Operations:

  • Identifies the contribution of various transmission facilities
  • Identifies critical assets from a security perspective
  • Reroutes gas flows when network facilities become disabled
  • Calculates what transportation nominations to make
  • Identifies pipeline capacity that is available to release to market

Supply Management:

  • Objectively projects financially prudent nominations by supply contract
  • Determines appropriate level of spot market transactions
  • Identifies the volume, duration and target price for entering into peaking supply contracts
  • Identifies excess contractual supply that can be released to the market
  
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