As the energy landscape grows more dynamic and complex, long-term planning has become a high-stakes challenge. Join us for an exclusive webinar showcasing the latest advancements in PCI’s GenTrader® — a powerful simulation and optimization platform now enhanced with elastic cloud computing and parallelized scenario analysis.
Discover how GenTrader empowers utilities, IPPs, and energy planners to run deeper studies, faster iterations, and smarter risk assessments across multiple time horizons.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How GenTrader’s parallel and elastic computing transforms long-term planning workflows
- Ways to simulate hundreds of “what-if” scenarios in hours instead of days
- Techniques for modeling thermal and hydro generation assets, fuels, batteries, solar, wind, and loads
- How to produce portfolio risk analysis and evaluate hedges
- Leverage PCI Insights for data analytics and AI/ML workloads
- Real-world examples of how PCI GenTrader supports portfolio optimization for multiple time horizons.
Who will benefit from this webinar:
- Generation portfolio managers: Professionals overseeing long-term asset planning and dispatch strategies
- Energy risk analysts: Those evaluating market exposure, fuel cost variability, and regulatory impacts
- Strategic planners: Teams responsible for integrated resource planning (IRP) and scenario modeling
- Trading and origination teams: Groups assessing forward market positions and contract structuring
- Financial and regulatory analysts: Professionals focused on capital investment decisions and compliance modeling
About the presenters:
Buck Feng is PCI’s CTO and has been with PCI since 1998. Buck is one of the chief architects of the generation asset optimization model known as PCI GenTrader®. He’s also responsible for the development of PCI’s Generation Supply Management System (GSMS), which is a platform that integrates asset optimization, trading and risk management, market communication, bid/offer management, P&L analysis, and settlement functions to extract maximum value from an energy company’s asset portfolio. Prior to joining PCI, Buck held several key positions at PG&E Corporation’s energy trading and utility divisions. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering (with power systems emphasis) at the University of Oklahoma.