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Job Summary
Job Description
Key Accountabilities
- Trades Luminant Energy’s daily, next day and balmo financial & physical electricity positions
- Develops and maintains profitable trading book in accordance to Luminant Energy Trading risk management policies and procedures
- Obtains and disseminates market data to energy trading and marketing organizations
- Constructs and offers in Day Ahead unit offers into the relevant RTO markets
- Works with fuels and transmission team in managing fuel optimization and power basis risks
- Uses market knowledge to maximize the profitability of Luminant’s specific ISO generation fleet intra-month
- Conducts market research and gathers competitive intelligence on supply and demand forces of various NERC regions
- Works with both ISOs and operations to coordinate unit outages
- Assists in Luminant energy trading marketing efforts by providing pricing curves and market intelligence for relevant regions
- Assists Energy professionals to ensure proper tracking and transmission of physical power flows
- Assists physical and financial traders by monitoring short-term electricity prices and transmission flows and taking advantage of market pricing discrepancies
Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements
- 3 years experience in the trading of financial & physical power flows and wholesale power trading (or related industry knowledge)
- Experience gained through college degree programs and/or certifications is applicable to above skills
- Experience supporting or executing physical and/or financial power transactions, including familiarity with deal structuring and risk exposure management
- Strong written and verbal communication skills — able to distill complex market dynamics into clear, concise analysis for senior leadership and external counterparties
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills with proficiency in Python, or similar tools for data analysis and modeling; advanced Excel required
- High degree of intellectual curiosity and independent judgment; comfortable operating with ambiguity and forming views in fast-moving markets
- •Achieve maximum profitability of Luminant’s specific ISO generation fleet intra-month
Job Family
Trading
Company
Luminant Energy Company LLC
Locations
Irving, Texas
Texas
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