Compliance and market oversight teams. Every alert carries a drill-down path and an evidence trail, from the flagged pattern back to the individual FTR or virtual trade behind it, so a finding is ready to hand to an investigation, not just a chart you have to explain.
Power market surveillance for energy trading firms
FTR congestion monitoring
FTR auction data and virtual transactions sit in separate systems at most firms. BroadPeak aggregates auction award data across ISOs and brings it together with virtual transactions, surfacing concentration risks, forfeiture exposure, and potential manipulation in one platform. No other solution does this in one place.
Track every FTR award, node, and virtual position
Auction to alert, one view
With BroadPeak’s Power Market Surveillance solution, energy trading firms get FTR auction data, virtual transactions, and forfeiture screening in a single interactive platform, closing the gap between a suspicious pattern and an investigation.
FTR path map & node geo-tagging
Every award, every corridor
Every awarded FTR path rendered on an interactive map, transmission nodes geo-tagged, paths color-coded by trade type. Click any path to cross-filter every visual on the dashboard, with virtual trade rings overlaid for correlation analysis.
Virtual transaction integration
Coordinated positioning
Ingests virtual transactions at the node level via bid-to-bill, matching participants with virtual positions to FTR awards on the same corridor. When RT pricing is available, it closes the loop from bid to settlement and surfaces DART spread divergences that may indicate manipulation.
Auction summary & concentration analysis
Concentration by participant
Breaks down trades by type (buy vs sell), MW volume, and count, with ISO-level distribution and participant concentration visuals. Drill down to individual FTR paths and price per MW per award.
Forfeiture scanning & alerts
ISO rule based screening
Automated screening against ISO-specific forfeiture rules, with high/low risk distribution segmentation. Identify activity that led to forfeiture settlement statements by correlating participant, virtual activity, and FTRs. Define your sensitivity by configurable thresholds.
ISO coverage
MISO, PJM, CAISO, ERCOT, NYISO, ISO-NE, SPP. Every major U.S. ISO auction market in a single platform, no need to stitch together multiple data sources.
Trade surveillance: Why data quality determines success
Trade surveillance programs succeed or fail based on data quality, not surveillance logic or alert sophistication.
See your full position
Three connected views: FTR positions, virtual trade P&L, and auction paths. Drill into any one and the others cross-filter with it, so you are never reconciling separate reports by hand.
FTRS
- Trade Type Distribution: buy/sell, obligation/option visual with counts
- ISO Distribution: by MW volume per market
- Participant MW Distribution: concentration visuals
- Price per MW by Path: full drill-down
Virtuals
- DA/RT Price Convergence: area chart over time
- Drillable P&L by Market/Node/Hour: top 10 horizontal bar chart
- Forfeiture Risk Distribution: HIGH/LOW virtual rings
- Flagged Trades Timeline: spikes indicate clustering
Interactive map
- FTR paths displayed as direct source-to-sink lines in green
- Nodes displayed as geo-tagged circles by ISO
- Virtual trades at node level
- Click on any path/node or ring to cross-filter the dashboard
- Suspicious paths highlighted for inspection
Frequently asked questions
What energy trading firms ask about BroadPeak’s Power Market Surveillance solution
What data does BroadPeak ingest for congestion monitoring?
FTR auction award data loaded across ISOs with node-level granularity, combined with customer bid-to-bill virtual transaction data mapped to the same FTR nodes and paths, all from a single platform without stitching together multiple data sources.
What happens if real time pricing data is not available?
DART spread visualization and the DA/RT convergence loop are data dependent. Real-time LMPs close the loop and surface spreads at each node when provided. Without RT pricing, the platform still shows virtual positions in the day ahead market.
Can I drill from a market-level view down to a single FTR?
Yes. A two-layer scatter drill-down takes you from path summary to individual FTR-level detail, with cross-filtering: selecting any visual (map, chart, or path) instantly updates every other visual and the data table.
Does BroadPeak handle multiple ISOs in one view, or do I need to switch between them?
Single platform, cross ISO. ISO-level distribution is shown by MW volume, with participant MW concentration visuals available at the market level.
Is BroadPeak built for trading desks or compliance teams?
How BroadPeak's Power Market Surveillance
solution works
Four-step surveillance process
BroadPeak ingests FTR auction awards and virtual transactions across ISOs, node by node. Configurable forfeiture rules and concentration checks flag high-risk activity, with drill-down to path, participant, and individual FTR level to support investigation.
Auction ingestion
FTR award data loaded across ISOs with node-level granularity.
Virtual bid integration:
Customer bid-to-bill data mapped to FTR nodes and paths.
RT price overlay
Real-time LMPs (when provided) close the loop, surfacing DART spreads at each node.
Scan and investigate
Forfeiture rules and concentration checks run across the full dataset, with drill-down to path, participant, and individual FTR level.
Auction to alert
Two views of the same data
Dashboard overview
See the whole market: historical trends, concentration by ISO and participant, and every FTR path mapped geographically, down to individual trade records, all without switching tools.
Investigation view
Drill down into any path or node to see FTR and forfeiture risk detail, with the map tracing that corridor and surfacing related activity in real time.
The company we keep
Clients
Enterprise grade infrastructure
Secure by architecture
Our secure managed hosting on AWS uses Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) for robust protection, while easy-to-build data streaming ETL pipelines move data seamlessly to Redshift or Snowflake through a low-code interface.
Perspectives
Insights
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