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Maximizing the Value of Your Energy Assets: Strategies for Optimized Power Trading

About This Webinar

Join us as we uncover some keys to improving trading strategy. In today’s energy transition, it is important to make the right trades to ensure reliability all while reaching budgets. This program will touch on some great techniques to establish trading targets and manage risk all while understanding your generation stack. This webinar is not a how-to training for end users, this is a best practices workflow management/overview for Trade Floor leaders who might need to buy new software tools. Our speakers will deep dive into the following Agenda and Learning Objectives.

Agenda/Scope:
• Establishing mid-term trading targets to manage risk
• Best practices for counterparty management, communication, risk, accounting, and settlement?
• Determining DA & RT deal pricing
• Power Scheduling & e-Tagging
• Deal Actualization
• Back Office, light touch to convey coverage/complete solution
o Confirms
o Contract Settlement
o Trade Accounting
• Trade PnL -> Post Analysis, transaction costing/stacking, Market PnL, and total portfolio PnL

Learning Objectives:
• Maximizing the value of your generation portfolio
o Outage planning
o Complexity management (constraints, bubbles, etc.)
• Knowing your break even DA and RT bilateral trading prices
o Block pricing
o RTP
o Make money on both sides of transactions
• Understanding your generation stack and trading opportunities
• Leveraging enterprise platform automation to drive workflow efficiencies
o Free up time from mundane tasks
o Focus on analysis and opportunity identification

Agenda
  • • Establishing mid-term trading targets to manage risk
  • • Best practices for counterparty management, communication, risk, accounting, and settlement?
  • • Determining DA & RT deal pricing
  • • Power Scheduling & e-Tagging
  • • Deal Actualization
  • • Back Office, light touch to convey coverage/complete solution
  • • Trade PnL -> Post Analysis, transaction costing/stacking, Market PnL, and total portfolio PnL
Who can view: Everyone
Webinar Price: Free
Featured Presenters
Webinar hosting presenter
VP of Solutions, PCI Energy Solutions’
Justin Shearer joined the PCI Energy Solutions team in 2013. Initially, Justin analyzed and developed settlements calculations in the SPPIM market. Shortly after, he was promoted multiple times through product management and solutions roles. Today, he actively supports and participates in all phases of business development, product development, and management as well as project deployment and consulting for the breadth of PCI products in his role as vice president of Solutions.
Justin earned his bachelor's in English literature and language from the University of Oklahoma. He then received his MBA with a focus in MIS and supply chain management from the Price School of Business at the University of Oklahoma.
In his previous positions, Justin has been a quality assurance team lead for a multi-billion-dollar hedge fund and a security class actions analyst for a financial services firm.
Webinar hosting presenter
Senior Director of Energy Trading & Scheduling, PCI Energy Solutions’
Brandon Leslie is PCI Energy Solutions’ senior director of Energy Trading & Scheduling. Brandon has been in energy software for over 10 years, with an emphasis on creating innovative software solutions in the rapidly transforming energy landscape. Prior to leading PCI's energy trading and scheduling product teams, Brandon worked with clients to implement PCI software, creating value through workflow automation and business process improvement. Brandon has a tremendous amount of knowledge on industry best practices, having worked with dozens of utilities and power producers. Brandon received his undergraduate and MBA from Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma City.
Webinar hosting presenter
Executive Editor, POWER magazine
Aaron Larson joined the POWER team in September 2013 as an associate editor and was named executive editor in 2017. Aaron has a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering technology and a master’s degree, specializing in finance. He spent 13 years in the U.S. Navy nuclear power program, advancing to Chief Petty Officer. He has worked at commercial nuclear, biomass, and coal-fired power plants, functioning in operations, maintenance, safety, financial, and management capacities. Aaron holds a Chief A Engineer boiler operator license in the state of Minnesota.
Webinar hosting presenter
Power Marketing Manager at Utah Municipal Power Agency
Talon Doucette, power marketing manager at Utah Municipal Power Agency, is a seasoned professional in the energy industry. With a strong focus on optimizing power trading outcomes, Talon has successfully implemented new thermal and renewable generation projects. His expertise in contract negotiations, expanding trading networks, and ensuring reliable resource delivery has proven instrumental in driving revenue growth and capturing market opportunities. Talon's role as the manager of real-time trading and operations underscores his commitment to economic resource dispatch and maximizing market potential.
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