While the US standard market design for electricity markets continues to advance and other world-wide designs mature, ECCO International offers customized market design services, market research and market intelligent services to clients who wish to stay ahead of the fast evolving energy marketplace. Participating with a complete spectrum of participants in energy markets regionally and worldwide, ECCO International can help you evaluate if a particular market design feature or strategy would benefit your organization.

ECCO International’s practical experience provides innovative solutions tailored to meet our clients’ diverse needs. We provide turn-key consulting from guidance on the type of assessment that would bring valuable insights for decision making, to designing wholesale electricity markets, to conducting independent studies to simulate various market elements.

Examples of subject areas of ECCO International’s expertise on market design and analysis include:

• Congestion Management
• Network Model Development
• Locational Marginal Pricing
• Locational Marginal Pricing Cost Benefits Analysis
• Zonal vs. Nodal Price Delineation
• Market Separation
• Scheduling
• FTRs as Obligations vs. Options
• Forward Energy Markets
• Existing Transmission Contracts
• Reliability Must Run Unit Scheduling
• Ancillary Services Definition, Procurement, Pricing and Settlements
• Sequential vs. Simultaneous Energy/Ancillary Services Procurement
• Real Time Markets
• Security Constrained Economic Dispatch
• Risk Analysis
• Global and Local Market Power Mitigation
• Settlements Analysis
• Metering
• Charge Reconciliation
• Operational Procedures
• Grid Code Development
• Organizational Structures (e.g., Transco vs. RTO)
• Market Analysis and Simulation