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
- We’ve recently led the market by innovating emissions modeling, asset-based commodity arbitrage and constrained fuel
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
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.
Customer Testimonial
Automating data-intensive real-time energy trading workflows
Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) relies on PCI’s integrated solutions, including GenTrader and GenPortal, to optimize complex real-time trading activities. This enables PNM to efficiently gather and submit data three times per hour to CAISO for bids, base schedules, day-ahead trading, and real-time trading. The automation and flexibility provided by PCI’s tools saves significant time and effort for traders compared to manual processes.
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
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
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.
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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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)
