Energy Markets Specialist

NextGenEnergyJobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NextGenEnergyJobs seeks a senior energy-market strategist to lead coverage of European power markets, drive BESS revenue strategies and oversee complex commercial processes. You will shape route-to-market decisions, hedge and manage risk, and translate market dynamics into actionable investment guidance.

You will challenge assumptions on prices, marginal returns and grid constraints, while developing standards for BESS assets and collaborating with fund-management teams to maximize investor

Qualifications

• Significant experience in European power markets, renewable energy commercialisation, trading, optimisation or energy-market advisory.
• Strong practical experience of BESS commercial strategy, including revenue modelling, route-to-market arrangements, ancillary services, dispatch considerations and optimiser performance.
• Experience working for, or advising, a renewable IPP, fund manager, utility, trading house, optimiser or energy-market consultancy.
• Excellent commercial judgement, with a track record of challenging and improving market assumptions, commercial structures or route-to-market strategies.
• Strong understanding of renewable revenue drivers, including PPAs, merchant exposure, hedging, balancing, capture price, negative pricing, ancillary services and grid constraints.
• High financial and numerical acumen, with the ability to build, review and challenge complex revenue models and investment assumptions.
• Experience leading complex commercial processes and managing external counterparties, including PPA, route-to-market, optimiser or trading arrangements.
• Ability to work credibly with investment, technical, fund-management and asset-management teams, translating market complexity into clear decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present commercial recommendations to senior management, Investment Committee and investors.

Responsibilities

• Lead energy-market coverage for ORIT, including route-to-market performance, revenue strategy, hedging, market risk and key commercial counterparties.
• Build OEGEN’s BESS commercial strategy across priority markets, including revenue underwriting, route-to-market, optimiser selection and risk management.
• Provide senior market input into investment decisions, challenging assumptions on power prices, capture prices, ancillary services, balancing, negative pricing, grid constraints and commercial structures.
• Develop clear standards and guidance for BESS and collocated assets, ensuring lessons from operational assets are reflected in new investment assumptions.
• Lead or oversee complex commercial processes, including optimiser, route-to-market and strategic PPA tenders; work with external providers to deliver routine contracting efficiently where appropriate.
• Monitor energy-market, regulatory and policy developments across OEGEN’s priority markets, identifying risks and opportunities for funds and assets.
• Work closely with Fund Asset Directors and Fund Management teams to develop and implement market strategies that support fund objectives, investor returns and risk appetite.
• Manage relationships with traders, optimisers, balancing parties, advisers and other key commercial partners, holding them to account for performance.
• Define and interpret quantitative analysis required for hedging, BESS, merchant exposure and portfolio risk, working with specialist analytical support where appropriate.
• Communicate complex market issues clearly to Investment Committee, Asset Boards and investors, with practical recommendations and a clear view of risk.

Skills

European power markets

Renewable energy

Trading & optimisation

Commercial strategy

PPA knowledge

Financial modelling

Stakeholder management

Job description

Help us make a big green dent in the universe.

Responsibilities

• Lead energy-market coverage for ORIT, including route-to-market performance, revenue strategy, hedging, market risk and key commercial counterparties
• Build OEGEN’s BESS commercial strategy across priority markets, including revenue underwriting, route-to-market, optimiser selection and risk management
• Provide senior market input into investment decisions, challenging assumptions on power prices, capture prices, ancillary services, balancing, negative pricing, grid constraints and commercial structures
• Develop clear standards and guidance for BESS and collocated assets, ensuring lessons from operational assets are reflected in new investment assumptions
• Lead or oversee complex commercial processes, including optimiser, route-to-market and strategic PPA tenders; work with external providers to deliver routine contracting efficiently where appropriate
• Monitor energy-market, regulatory and policy developments across OEGEN’s priority markets, identifying risks and opportunities for funds and assets
• Work closely with Fund Asset Directors and Fund Management teams to develop and implement market strategies that support fund objectives, investor returns and risk appetite
• Manage relationships with traders, optimisers, balancing parties, advisers and other key commercial partners, holding them to account for performance
• Define and interpret quantitative analysis required for hedging, BESS, merchant exposure and portfolio risk, working with specialist analytical support where appropriate
• Communicate complex market issues clearly to Investment Committee, Asset Boards and investors, with practical recommendations and a clear view of risk

Requirements

• Significant experience in European power markets, renewable energy commercialisation, trading, optimisation or energy-market advisory
• Strong practical experience of BESS commercial strategy, including revenue modelling, route-to-market arrangements, ancillary services, dispatch considerations and optimiser performance
• Experience working for, or advising, a renewable IPP, fund manager, utility, trading house, optimiser or energy-market consultancy
• Excellent commercial judgement, with a track record of challenging and improving market assumptions, commercial structures or route-to-market strategies
• Strong understanding of renewable revenue drivers, including PPAs, merchant exposure, hedging, balancing, capture price, negative pricing, ancillary services and grid constraints
• High financial and numerical acumen, with the ability to build, review and challenge complex revenue models and investment assumptions
• Experience leading complex commercial processes and managing external counterparties, including PPA, route-to-market, optimiser or trading arrangements
• Ability to work credibly with investment, technical, fund-management and asset-management teams, translating market complexity into clear decisions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present commercial recommendations to senior management, Investment Committee and investors