Maximize profitability by optimizing your portfolio
Plan, forecast, optimize. PCI’s GenTrader® incorporates numerous breakthroughs in optimization and simulation technology and offers multiple modeling capabilities that provide near real-time decision support, forecasting, long-range planning, and analytics.
Model and Optimize
Optimize your energy assets
Our GenTrader® platform is the most all-encompassing energy generation and storage portfolio modeling and optimization software available to ISO and bilateral market participants.
Actionable
- Accurate study results no matter the complexity
- Insightful information you can use to make profitable decisions
Integrated
- Seamless integration with the PCI software platform
- Integrates with any third-party systems
Innovative
- Innovative emissions modeling, asset-based commodity arbitrage and constrained fuel
- Optimize flexible ramping to meet changing system conditions
Solutions
Coordinate every part of your portfolio
Post-analytics
Daily operational planning
Power plant upgrade impacts
Thermal generation including combined-cycle
Fuel burn forecasting
Real-time pricing
Asset valuation and acquisition
Market prices: power, fuel, ancillary services, emissions
Complex option and forward contracts
Fuel constraints and energy-limited options
O&M optimization
Autotrader
Fully automated execution of your trading strategies
PCI helps you to keep pace with complex, fast-moving markets by continuously optimizing your portfolio and automatically executing your trading strategies.
Model multiple complex factors
All renewables power generation
Thermal power generation including complex combined-cycle assets
Hydro power generation including cascaded and pumped storage assets
Market prices: power, fuel, ancillary services, emissions
Complex option and forward contracts
Fuel constraints and energy-limited options
Plan Power Systems
Get power generation planning right
GenTrader® incorporates an advanced optimization algorithm for robust unit commitment (UC) and economic dispatch (ED) and is capable of accurately modeling any scenario.
Comprehensive
- Support for daily operational planning, fuel burn forecasting, acquisitions, post-analytics, plan upgrades and more.
- Unified modeling for short to long-term studies with recursive outage adaptation
- Co-optimize flexible ramping with energy and ancillary services
Versatile
- Run large, multi-year studies in significantly less time with parallel processing
- Assess how portfolio P&L characteristics would behave under varying market condition
- Adjust scenario depth dynamically for agile responses to market changes
Farsighted
- PCI optimizes more than 50% of all power generated in North America, so we’re the vanguard for incorporating new factors to model and new modeling applications.
- Scale compute on demand to handle billions of calculations without upfront hardware
Modeling applications
Full co-optimization for all customer resources and obligations
Deterministic/stochastic simulations and production costing runs
Production cost modeling and the impact of load uncertainty, forced outages, and fuel cost uncertainties on revenues, costs, and profits/losses
Multi-tier fuel constraint optimization
Multi-area and multi-commodity capabilities for arbitrage decisions and operations
Simultaneous local/global NOx emission constraint optimization
Market price analysis
Product Webinar
Duke energy optimizes gas and trading risks with PCI’s platform
Learn from Duke’s experience implementing PCI’s optimization platform and the considerable production-cost savings they were able to generate.
Forecast
Make better decisions with powerful forecasting
PCI GenTrader® has powerful and flexible forecasting tools that enable energy generation and transmission professionals to model complex portfolios of power and fuel resources including generators, contracts, options, and ancillary services, and do it over any time-frame.
Maximize Profits
- Co-optimize energy and ancillary service (AS) positions and opportunities
- Input “bid” and “ask” prices to define a commodity market
Minimize Costs
- Perform post-analysis for operational efficiency, transaction/outage costing, and more
- Assess the impact of market price volatility, unit forced outages, and load uncertainties
Mitigate Risks
- Use case comparisons to see detailed differences between designated studies
- Perform stochastic analyses to stimulate the value and risk of a position, portfolio, and more
By the Numbers
1-3% average production cost savings
Our customers enjoy very significant benefits from optimizing their portfolios, on average saving somewhere between one and three percent of the production costs.
Integrated suite of tools
"Having one vendor where all of those different tools and solutions work with each other, it just made sense for us instead of having a vendor to do this and a vendor to do that."
- Jason Smith, Senior Engineer, Santee Cooper
More time for analysis
"We're able to do our jobs faster and easier, and it just gives us time to focus on analyzing the data, instead of preparing data."
- Brad Lafler, Market Optimization Lead, Lincoln Electric System
Unified platform and team
"I think the fact that multiple departments can use the same tool, it kind of helps bring all of us together speaking the same language."
- John Mayhew, Senior Real Time Trader, PNM
Trust through transparency
"I see our PCI relationship more like a peer or a teammate than just a provider or supplier."
- Juan Guichard, CEO, Ammper Energia
Rapid ROI realized
"PCI's integrated solutions have delivered significant cost savings and efficiency gains for Santee Cooper. Their tools and support have been invaluable to our business."
- Chris Moore, Business Analyst, Santee Cooper
Tailored software solutions
"If PCI isn't able to find a solution directly in their products, we work with them in several different capacities to come up with customizable solutions in their product. And those have worked very well, even through upgrades in their system."
- Tucker Smith, Sr. Market Coordinator, Basin Electric
Collaboration built on trust
"The bottom line is it’s an enterprise solution... everything comes together as one, so that it’s a much easier, supportable process as well as tool set. It has definitely saved us time... PCI delivers so that we can keep moving forward."
- Maureen Kempton, Sr. Manager, Salt River Project
Simplifying settlements, expanding partnership
"We've been able to file disputes with our ISOs and get some money back because we're able to see more data quickly. We've saved a ton of time, probably a couple of days' worth each week going through, looking at PCI data, and validating that way."
- Sara Quintana, Middle Office Manager, Guzman Energy
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Implemented in the following markets:
North America
- CAISO (California ISO)
- ERCOT (Texas ISO)
- ISO-NE (ISO New England)
- MISO (Midwest ISO)
- NYISO (New York ISO)
- PJM Interconnection (PA, NJ, MD)
- SPP (Southwest Power Pool)
- US Bilateral Markets
- Canada (AESO, IESO)
- MEM (Mexico)