PTC India inks pact with N side to develop predictive solution for Indian power market

New Delhi: Power trading solution provider PTC India on Tuesday announced its collaboration with Belgium-based N-Side to work on developing a predictive solution for the Indian power market. As part of a long-term strategy to position itself as a technology-enabled solutions provider in the electricity value chain, the company is building a portfolio of forecasting tools across various tenors to forecast demand and prices in the electricity markets.

India's power mkt is volatile, mkt participants looking for tools & solutions

The new solution will be in addition to PTC's in-house Analytics Lab that has been set up to generate proprietary analysis and insights for its internal use as well as for its clients. The evolving Indian power market, in which the behaviour of the market participants resulted in heightened volatility, recently has validated the need for market makers to equip themselves with tools and solutions to support their decision making.

'PTC to reposition itself as technology enabled market maker'

Rajib K Mishra, CMD (additional charge), PTC India, said in the statement, "The participation in the markets of the future would require a core competency of data analytics in all aspects involving descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics and PTC is well on its journey to reposition itself as a technology enabled market maker."

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