ECCO International and its associates have provided consulting services and expert advice in numerous restructuring and market design initiatives worldwide. The following represents a partial list of ECCO International’s regional activities:

• California Independent System Operator (CAISO)
  Provided expert advice on the design and software development of various market operations functions to redesign the California electricity market. This includes the redesign of the Ancillary Services markets, the Congestion Management market, Reliability Must Run (RMR) scheduling, Capacity and Generation Adequacy Markets, the Real Time and Forward Markets, RTO design, and various settlements and billing functions. It also includes various activities at the CAISO to ensure FERC compliance. He is currently heavily involved in the redesign of the CAL ISO markets, including Forward and Real Time markets, Scheduling, Capacity Markets, Settlements, CRR market, LMP transmission pricing, and network modeling, and the development and implementation of the software systems to support the new CAISO markets.
  
  
• New England ISO (ISO-NE)
  Provided expert advice and consulting services in analyzing various elements of the Forward and Real Time markets and scheduling algorithms including Lagrangian based and Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) based Units Commitment algorithms.
  
  
• ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc.)
  Participated in performing a cost benefits analysis of the LMP based energy market model that is currently under consideration in the wholesale energy market in Texas.
  
  
• Cap Gemini Ernst & Young LLC
  Dr. Alex Papalexopoulos has been a special consultant to the ISO Solutions Group in the Cap Gemini Ernst &Young’s Energy and Utilities Consulting Practice. He provided expert advice to CGE&Y clients around the world on electric industry restructuring, market design and software systems issues for developing Independent System Operators and Power Exchanges. He assisted CGE&Y in their bid efforts for developing software systems for the electricity markets for various clients in North America and Europe. These clients include CAISO, IMO Canada, ISO-New England, Alliance RTO, Grid America, Portland General Electric, PacificCorp., and Entergy. He also assisted CGE&Y in developing strategy and products to serve various market participants that participate in the ISO and PX markets.
  
  
• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
  Provided expert advice on electric industry restructuring and market design issues to utility EPRI members around the world.
  
  
• Poland, PSE
  Provided consulting services through EPRI in developing and implementing various elements of the wholesale energy markets in Poland, including scheduling, transmission pricing, RMR scheduling and generation adequacy, and real- time markets.
  
  
• Japan, Kyushu
  Provided expert advice through EPRI on the various aspects of unbundling utility functions and on the market design and transmission operations of various ISOs in the US and Europe.
  
  
• Greece, Regulatory Authority of Energy (RAE)
  Provided expert advice on the development and implementation of various markets in the Greek energy sector, including, scheduling, day-ahead and real-time markets, and a capacity market to ensure generation adequacy and sufficient reserve margins.
  
  
• Hellenic Transmission System Operator (HTSO)
  Provided expert advice on the development and implementation of various markets in the Greek wholesale energy market.
  
  
• Public Power Corporation, National Utility of Greece
  Provided expert advice and consulting services on analyzing various aspects of the Greek wholesale energy market.
  
  
• Government of Albania
  Provided expert advice and consulting services to key members of the Ministries of energy, finance, and economy, the National Agency of Energy (NAE), the regulator (ERE), and the vertically integrated utility (KESH) in various areas, including the development of a comprehensive energy policy, improvement of electricity security and reliability, design of tariffs that encourage conservation, reorganization and unbundling of KESH, development of a regional power market in the Balkans, and development of a commercial energy market.
  
  
• Bonneville Power Administration
  Provided expert advice on electric industry restructuring matters including transmission modeling, transmission pricing, congestion management and ancillary services.
  
  
• World Bank
  Provided expert advice on electric industry restructuring and the ancillary services markets.
  
  
• Government of Argentina
  Provided expert advice to the Ministry of Energy and Economy on various matters concerning the electricity market in Argentina, including generation bidding, transmission modeling, transmission pricing, auction of Firm Tradable Rights, generation adequacy and capacity auctions, etc.
  
  
• Pacific Gas and Electric Company
  Provided consulting services and power system analysis expertise on various transmission planning, operational and settlement functions. It performs various interconnection studies for new generation capacity in California.
  
  
• Spain, Regulators
  Provided expert advice on electric industry restructuring and energy market design issues related to physical bilateral contracts.
  
  
• Baltic States, Utilities
  Provided consulting services on electric industry restructuring and market design issues related to pooling arrangements.
  
  
• LCG
  Provided expert advice in analyzing forward and real time market data for various ISO markets in the US.
  
  
• Pierce Atwood (Law Firm)
  Provided expert advice on electric industry restructuring and market design issues for the Albanian market.
  
  
• EMA/American Water Works Association
  Provided experts advice and consulting services in the area of forecasting applications in a competitive environment.
  
  
• A Municipal Utility
  Provides consulting and software development services on settlements and billing functions and expert advice on market design and transmission issues.
  
  
• A Generator
  Provides consulting services on market development and design issues in the Mid West and Eastern Unites States.
  
  
• A Software Developer
  Provides consulting services on scheduling and Unit Commitment functions, electric industry restructuring, and market design.