Where I can help

For utilities, trading houses, IPPs and clean-tech companies in European power markets, with a focus on renewables, flexibility and battery storage.

01

Strategy & operating models

Assess opportunities, define roadmaps and adapt your organisation to a growing portfolio.

For utilities, trading houses, IPPs

Questions I help answer

  • Should we enter this market, and what will it take?
  • How should our trading organisation evolve as the portfolio grows?
  • What should we build, buy or outsource?

What you get

  • Market and opportunity assessment
  • Target operating model for trading and asset operations
  • Roadmap and decision paper for management
  • Workshops that help stakeholders reach decisions together

Relevant experience. Supported the CIO Trading of a global energy company in defining its power trading business and IT strategy and roadmap.
Case study: A 2030 trading strategy for an opening Swiss market

02

Technology & product

Translate trading and operational needs into clear requirements, product priorities and system design, with the end user and the commercial purpose in view.

For utilities, trading houses, IPPs

Questions I help answer

  • Which trading, optimisation or ETRM vendor fits our needs?
  • Where can AI and LLMs help our desk, and where not?
  • Why is our trading IT roadmap not delivering?

What you get

  • Requirements, product priorities and target architecture
  • Vendor shortlist, scoring and selection support
  • Assessment and guidance on AI and LLM use cases
  • Guidance through implementation

Relevant experience. Product owner for algorithmic trading, optimisation and asset operations systems at Ørsted. Led an expert group defining a next-generation architecture for multi-market, multi-asset optimisation, including BESS.
Case study: Algorithmic trading for a 5 GW portfolio across three countries

03

Asset & portfolio assessment

Review business cases for renewable and flexible assets, and the trading opportunities and risks behind investment decisions.

For IPPs, utilities, private equity

Questions I help answer

  • Are the revenue assumptions behind this battery project realistic?
  • What trading risks sit behind this asset or PPA?
  • How should we hedge this portfolio over time?

What you get

  • Independent review of the business case
  • Challenge of market and revenue assumptions
  • Trading opportunities, risks and hedging options, in a short memo

Relevant experience. Managed the commercial optimisation of a 5 GW portfolio at Ørsted. Led projects on long-term hedging and short-term power exposure for Swiss and European utilities.
Case study: Cutting imbalance costs for a Swiss balance group

04

Clean-tech commercial development

Sharpen your product and commercial approach around what utilities and traders need. Having worked on both the customer and vendor sides, I understand how buyers evaluate solutions.

For clean-tech and energy software companies

Questions I help answer

  • Do trading desks see our product as a must-have?
  • How should we position and price against incumbents?
  • How do we answer this RFP to win?

What you get

  • Product-market fit assessment
  • Positioning and pricing recommendations
  • Go-to-market plan
  • Support on RFP responses

Relevant experience. As Head of Power at Kpler, structured the go-to-market approach and commercial positioning. Before that, years on the buyer's side at Ørsted and advising utilities.
Case study: Product-market fit with energy traders

05

Programme delivery

Lead transformations from planning through implementation, coordinating business and technology teams, managing risks and keeping delivery focused on results.

For utilities, trading houses, IPPs

Questions I help answer

  • Who can steer this programme across business and IT?
  • How do we meet regulatory deadlines while the market design keeps changing?

What you get

  • Plan, governance and SteerCo material
  • Risk and dependency management
  • One person accountable for delivery, from kick-off to go-live

Relevant experience. Programme manager for a global energy company's power trading IT roadmap (2023-2025), with a monthly VP-level SteerCo and TSO compliance across multiple markets.

Case studies

Four engagements in detail, from the trading desk to the board. Client names on request.

Strategy · Swiss utility

A 2030 trading strategy for an opening Swiss market

Context
The Swiss market is changing: a possible opening with the EU, market coupling, 15-minute products and single imbalance pricing. The trading team needed a shared vision and clear choices.
What I did
  • A diagnosis of the current situation
  • A view of the market in 2030
  • A vision built on four pillars, with a capability review along the trade lifecycle
  • Buy, build or partner choices
  • Use cases prioritised on value and complexity, and a roadmap to 2030

Impact

A shared 2030 vision, prioritised use cases, and a roadmap to tap into new sources of flexibility and reduce balancing costs.

Technology & product · Ørsted

Algorithmic trading for a 5 GW portfolio across three countries

Context
Ørsted needed secure market access, better profitability and a route to market for its PPAs and assets in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands.
What I did
  • Steered the implementation of the algorithmic trading systems
  • Drafted the algorithmic trading framework with risk, legal, compliance and ethics, got it approved and took it to go-live

Impact

Algos live in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, trading 5 GW of renewable and flexible assets and improving balancing costs.

Balancing · Swiss utility and DSO

Cutting imbalance costs for a Swiss balance group

Context
A Swiss utility and DSO wanted to understand what drove the imbalance costs of its balance group, and how to reduce them.
What I did
A root-cause analysis across production and consumption, covering forecasting, data, processes and trading, with recommendations the team could implement.

Impact

Recommendations were implemented and balancing costs fell significantly afterwards.

Product · Leading clean-tech company, electricity data

Product-market fit with energy traders

Context
A clean-tech scale-up providing electricity data was considering entering the trading market, with a dedicated offer for trading customers.
What I did
  • Reviewed product-market fit against the current positioning
  • Segmented trading customers
  • Mapped the key capabilities and data needs of each segment
  • Identified the features that matter to traders

Impact

Segments prioritised, with clear USPs and a sales approach for each.

Have a challenge in mind?

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