UAMPS and Basin Electric win the OATI AI Use Case Challenge

Two wholesale power suppliers brought the winning idea to the AI use case workshop at OATI Energy Conference 2026: an AI agent that determines whether a book-out or a physical flow is the better choice under current market conditions, then finds available transmission on the right path, buys it and builds the associated tag. It also creates an alternative tag and transmission route in case of a curtailment.

Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) and Basin Electric Power Cooperative worked the idea as one team in the workshop. The OATI AI team will develop the winning idea, and each of the two organizations will receive complimentary service for one year.

A decision made every day, against the clock

Every day, schedulers and traders make the same call. Settle a transaction financially as a book-out, or schedule it as a physical flow? The answer turns on market prices and the cost of transmission at that moment. If the power flows, someone has to find available transmission on the right path, reserve it and build the tag before the deadline. When a curtailment hits, the work starts over: a new path, a new reservation, a new tag.

The steps themselves are not the hard part. Connecting them, quickly and in the right order, is.

The data behind each one already lives in OASIS and the e-Tag. OATI built OASIS and e-Tagging, the infrastructure bulk power runs on, and the winning idea puts AI on top of that workflow, from the market call to the tag.