The Richter Family

Professional

Charles W Richter, Jr., PhD

Is an experienced energy consultant, familiar with:

Deregulated electricity markets
Energy settlement systems
Energy trading systems
Energy management systems (EMS) tools
SCADA systems

Has worked with power system software vendor on:

product development
project delivery and integration
project and product test creation, execution and documentation
proposal responses
requirements specifications
customer demonstrations

Has used mathematical modeling techniques and OR type algorithms to optimize, solve, or simulate aspects of deregulated power systems including:

Lagrangian Relaxation
Dynamic programming
Genetic Algorithms
Genetic Programming
Artificial Neural Networks

Has utilized tools and languages to develop, deliver, test, report, extract data, and fix software bugs including:

PL/SQL
Oracle
SQL Server
AIMMS
MATLAB
Mathematica
C/C++
Java
HTML
VSS
DevTrack
Scripts

Has done work in a number of environments:

A power systems software vendor
An academic/university setting
An Independent System Operator (ISO)
An environmental engineering consulting firm
A nuclear power plant
A large hedging/investment firm
A family farm

Additional Sources of Information:

A sample of set of papers that Chuck has co-authored:

Charles W. Richter, Jr. and Gerald B. Sheble. "A Profit-Based Unit Commitment GA for the Competitive Environment." Published in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 1999.
Charles W. Richter, Jr., Gerald B. Sheble, and Dan Ashlock. "Comprehensive Bidding Strategies with Genetic Programming/Finite State Automata." PE-030-PWRS-0-10-1998, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 1998.
Charles W. Richter, Jr., Dan Ashlock, and Gerald B. Sheble. "Effects of Tree Size and State Number on GP-Automata Bidding Strategies." Presented at the 1998 Conference on Genetic Programming, Madison, WI.
Charles W. Richter, Jr. and Gerald B. Sheble. "Genetic Algorithm Evolution of Utility Bidding Strategies for the Competitive Marketplace." PE-752-PWRS-1-05-1997, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 13, No. 1, February 1998.
Charles W. Richter, Jr., Avnaesh Jayantilal, and Jayant Kumar, "Improving Market Participant Strategies with FTR Options," presented at Power Industry Computer Applications 2001 in Sydney, Australia.
James Nicolaisen, Charles W. Richter, Jr., and Gerald B. Sheble, "Price Signal Analysis for Competitive Electric Generation Companies." Presented at the DRPT 2000 Conference held in April 2000 in London.
V. T. Petrov, Charles W. Richter, Jr., and Gerald B. Sheble, "Predatory Gaming Strategies for Electric Power Markets." Presented at the DRPT 2000 Conference held in April 2000 in London.
Derek W. Lane, Charles W. Richter, Jr., and Gerald B. Sheble, "Modeling and Evaluating Electricity Options Markets with Intelligent Agents." Presented at the DRPT 2000 Conference held in April 2000 in London.
James Nicolaisen, Chuck Richter, and Gerald Sheble, "Determining Electricity Market Share with Chaos." Presented at the 1999 North American Power Symposium held in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Hao Wu, Charles W. Richter, Jr., and Gerald B. Sheble, "Optimal Control Applied to the Transmission Investment Strategy Problem." Presented at the 1999 North American Power Symposium held in San Luis Obispo, CA.
V. Petrov, C.W. Richter, and G. B. Sheble, "Economically Destabilizing Electric Power Markets for Profit." Presented at the 1999 North American Power Symposium held in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Derek W. Lane, Charles W. Richter, Jr., and Gerald B. Sheble, "Modeling Dynamic Electricity Markets with Intelligent Agent Based Economics." Presented at the 1999 North American Power Symposium held in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Charles W. Richter, Jr., and Gerald B. Sheble. "Bidding Strategies that Minimize Risk with Options and Futures Contracts." Presented April 1998, at the American Power Conference in Chicago.
Charles W. Richter, Jr. and Gerald B. Sheble. "Building Fuzzy Bidding Strategies for the Competitive Generator." Presented at 1997 North American Power Symposium in Laramie, Wyoming.