Brad Daniel Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Responsible for direction and oversight of Midwest Generation Dispatch and Unit Commitment, Midwest Regulatory support as well as FERC, NERC, RTO Compliance and RTO Strategy and Policy  Develop strategy and manage operations for Midwest Dispatch and Unit Commitment including Day Ahead and Real Time offers into MISO and PJM, planned outage coordination, emissions compliance and FERC, NERC, and RTO/IMM market compliance Regulatory Fuel recovery witness for Duke Energy Indiana and Kentucky jurisdictions Manage compliance function that is responsible for implementing Generation Dispatch training and compliance, including NERC PER-005 and COM-002, and CIP.  Responsible for Power Trading EQR reporting function Monitory and manage policy changes by FERC and RTO that impact dispatch and unit commitment operations and strategy

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Manage mid-term team responsible forward production cost modeling and portfolio fuel burn projections  Managed multi-portfolio (Duke Energy Carolinas, Florida, Midwest) mid-term team responsible for a variety of responsibilities associated with up to five-year forward production cost modeling and portfolio fuel burn projections. o Team responsibilities included: fuel burn cost projections, forward gas and power position analysis, outage coordination, and analytical support for portfolio operations. including Fuel Procurement and Hedging, Unit Commitment, and Power Trading. Provide mid-term (prompt month to five years) fuel projections for Budgeting (Rates/ FPA), Regulatory Strategy, and Fossil-Hydro Strategic Engineering. Managed team responsibilities and relationships across work groups including Fuel Procurement, Gas and Power Trading, Unit Commitment within the Fuel Systems and Optimization department.  Managed external support to and coordination with Corporate Rates and Regulatory Strategy teams, Financial Planning and Analysis, Enterprise and Regulated Electric Risk Management and Engineering Services with five-year production cost and portfolio fuel burn projections.  Responsible for monthly fuel burn reports and quarterly Fuel and Operations Forecasts for Carolinas, Florida, and Midwest portfolio jurisdictions.  Gained knowledge and expertise of GenTrader software used for cost modeling and fuel projections.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Manage and oversee short term optimization of Southeast Region wholesale power and capacity market activity Lead team of twelve responsible for wholesale power trading positions accumulating ~$25M in gross margin and power purchase savings annually.  Managed consolidation and transition of separately functioning trading desks into one post-merger trading desk, including personnel change, modified trading strategies, and new internal system dispatch arrangement. Negotiated $14M in shareholder benefit upon exit of FERC required contractual obligations due to merger. Team lead on multiple business unit improvement initiative designed to reduce compliance risk with FERC EQR reporting, reducing shareholder impact up to $500K.  Developed and maintained key metrics tracking market interaction optimization and fuel cost awareness for traders.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Responsible for managing the short term hedging portfolio for Duke Energy Indiana and Duke Energy Kentucky. This portfolio is responsible for hedging price risk in MISO and PJM for 7200 MW of assets in Indiana and 1040 MW of assets in KY. The portfolio is also responsible for managing FTR allocation and risk for each state's generation assets in MISO and PJM. Also responsible for managing load forecast solutions and vendor contracts.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

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Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

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