Dispatch as a Service
Your plant should run the moment the price is right.Instantly, and on a strategy that never stops improving.
WiSDM forecasts the power price, turns that forecast into offers and restatements, starts and stops the plant, verifies it actually came online, watches the data and alerts operators, and reconciles what it earned.
A day in the merchant power market
3
Plants live since 2023
40MW
Under management
3–5yr
Customer contracts
24/7
Offer and dispatch coverage
The problem
Power plant operation does not wait for business hours.
Power price is set hourly and moves dramatically from hour to hour within a single day. Capturing that requires someone watching the forecast, restating offers before each deadline, and starting and stopping the unit at the right moment.
A dispatch desk scales by hiring. Every plant you add is another round of the same work, gathering the data, running the forecast, submitting the offers, taking the dispatch and acting on it, bringing the unit up, then watching every data point to confirm it really is running. That is headcount to hire, train and cover around the clock, and the wider you spread that bench the thinner the expertise on it gets. WiSDM automatically scales and leverages its extensive capability for every plant at once, each to its own configuration, while an expert operator oversees all of them and steps in when a situation actually calls for judgement.
WiSDM was built by operators who had this problem on their own plants first. It is expensive in a way that never shows up as a line item.
The platform
One loop that never stops.
Four systems hand off to each other continuously and seamlessly, and a fifth checks the other four are telling the truth. An expert operator oversees every automated action, with manual override always available.
Forecast
Machine-learned power price forecasts, hour by hour, refreshed continuously against live system conditions, not a number someone typed in at the morning meeting.
Optimise
The run decision is re-optimised up to every 60 seconds against forecast revenue, cost to run, and the minimum run and off times the unit is bound by.
Dispatch
Offers and restatements go to the ISO inside the deadline, and the plant starts and stops remotely. No one drives to site, and no one has to be awake.
Prove
Every startup is verified against metered output, mismatches escalate to an on-call operator, and generation, revenue, gas cost and margin are reconciled into reports.
Where it fits
Forecasting, strategy and automated dispatch, without building it yourself.
| In-house | Traditional desk | WiSDM | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forecasting | Possible, but only with in-house development | Manual, or very limited | Machine-learned price forecast, refreshed continuously |
| Strategy | Possible, but only with in-house development | Revisited in periodic desk meetings, often once a day | Re-optimised up to every 60 seconds, 24/7 |
| Offers & dispatch | Received and actioned manually by your staff | Relayed manually by desk staff | Submitted, acknowledged and sent to the plant automatically |
| Alarms & tasks | Operators watch screens and do every task by hand | Escalated by phone, if someone is watching | Automated alarms and tasks, so one operator runs more plants |
Running today
This is not a pilot.
WiSDM has dispatched real generation into the market every day since 2023. 40 MW under management, on three to five year contracts.
Tell us about your asset.
Capacity, fuel arrangement, control system and how it is dispatched today is enough for us to say whether automation would pay for itself.