dekatherm + decern · “to decide, in dekatherms”
Software that helps a municipal natural-gas coalition buy gas for its member towns carefully — with every fact a scheduler needs in one place, and a clear reason behind every decision.
See clearly
Weather, storage balances, pipeline deadlines, and prices — gathered automatically, shown plainly, checked for the readings that can't be right.
Decide carefully
When a purchase is considered, storage is checked first and every buying method is compared. The goal is the lowest defensible cost — never a market bet.
Show your work
Every recommendation carries its reasoning and the alternatives it was chosen over, in a record a town, a board, or an auditor can read.
Why it exists
Towns that own their gas systems depend on a small number of people making good buying decisions under hard deadlines — coldest weeks most of all. Gas has been bought that storage could have covered, and bought at the default price when a better method was available. Dekacern exists to make those two mistakes hard to repeat: not by trading harder, but by making the careful decision the easy one.
Minimize loss, not maximize profit — the standard a steward of public money has to meet.
Dekacern is being developed by communiti.life, a Public Benefit Corporation, for a single customer: the Oklahoma Municipal Natural Gas Coalition — a non-profit that buys natural gas on behalf of municipally owned gas systems in Oklahoma. It is built with the coalition's schedulers, around the way the work is actually done.