Fulin Zhuang is a Director at UISOL. He has over 24 years of experience in deregulated energy market design and operation, power system operational optimization, electric transmission planning and energy market applications development. At UISOL, Fulin provides leadership in helping clients develop optimal business strategies and processes in deregulated energy markets.
Prior to UISOL, Fulin was a senior manager with Deloitte & Toche, LLP, where he led Deloitte teams in business processes and procedures development, technical support for contractual negotiation and regulatory filings, revenue reconciliation and financial settlement analysis, impact assessment of California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO)’s design of locational marginal pricing based energy markets, as well as CAISO Tariff compliance assessments.
Before joining Deloitte & Touche, LLP, Fulin was a Director and applications manager with Perot Systems focusing on services for California Power Exchange (CalPX), where he provided leadership in the design of business processes for transaction book-out, inter-scheduling coordinator scheduling and firm transmission rights scheduling. He also provided business support for PX’s regulatory analysis and filings. As an applications manager, Fulin managed the client’s applications development for energy market auction, trading, scheduling and settlement with CAISO and PX market participants.
Preceding his consulting career, Fulin was a systems engineer and supervising transmission planning engineer at Pacific Gas and Electric Company. As a systems engineer, Fulin was the key designer and developer of PG&E’s hydro-thermal optimization program, an application that produces least-cost hourly unit commitment and dispatch for PG&E’s extensive mix of hydro and thermal electric generators while respecting complex unit specific operating constraints as well as hydraulic system constraints. As a supervising transmission planning engineer, Fulin led a team of transmission planners to analyze PG&E’s electric transmission needs through power flow, transient stability and voltage stability studies, develop financial analysis and justifications for transmission construction project and coordinate the engineering of transmission projects. He was responsible for the development of several key 230 kV transmission lines in the Silicon Valley area, reliability analysis of 500 kV transmission systems and many transmission interconnection projects. In this capacity, Fulin also served as the system representation chairman for the Systems Review Work Group of WECC Reliability Sub-Committee.
Fulin holds a Ph.D. in Power Systems from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has published in deregulated energy market analysis and design, hydro-thermal optimization, unit commitment and power system state estimation.