Author: Arun Kumar

Arun Kumar is head of technology and short-term power market at PTC. Arun has over 25 years of experience in the power sector as a corporate leader, equity analyst, and management consultant. Arun previously set up a full-fledged forecasting team, providing demand and renewable-generation forecasting solutions to RLDC, SLDC, DISCOMs, and RE generators. The solution was using a conventional SQL database where the data and weather science team created forecasting algorithms and trained models for generating the outputs. He used the AWS tool for the first time and found the experience very rewarding and cost effective.