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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.

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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.

Optimize your entire portfolio, including:

Daily operational planning

Fuel burn forecasting

Asset valuation and acquisition

Post-analytics

Transaction structuring

Emissions

Power plant upgrade impacts

Hydro generation including cascaded and pumped storage

Thermal generation including combined-cycle

Renewable generation

Real-time pricing

Market prices: power, fuel, ancillary services, emissions

Complex option and forward contracts

Fuel constraints and energy-limited options

O&M optimization

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

  • We’ve recently led the market by innovating emissions modeling, asset-based commodity arbitrage and constrained fuel

Client Testimonial

"FMPP’s collaboration and partnership with PCI, including utilizing their very comprehensive GenTrader platform, has been instrumental in optimizing our entire resource portfolio to help us save more than $500 million - and counting."

Executive Director, FMPP

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Client Testimonial

"Our customers benefit greatly by us operating our system most economically, which is due to PCI’s robust optimizations and advanced risk management."

IT Delivery Lead

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Client Testimonial

"We gained immediate benefits using the GenTrader® optimization tool after barely entering EIM. We wish we’d had it long before we joined the market"

Client

GM & EIM Program Manager

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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.

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

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

Versatile

  • Run large, multi-year studies in significantly less time with parallel processing
  • Assess how portfolio P&L characteristics would behave under varying market conditions

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.

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

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Duke energy optimizes gas and trading risks with PCI’s platform

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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.

Customer Testimonial

OUC Optimize Complex Asset Portfolios with PCI

Ed Bemis describes his experience working with GenTrader and PCI to optimize a complex asset portfolio at Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC)

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